Home is something many of us take for granted.
It’s just there, waiting for you at the end of the day, warm and safe.

But for many college students, this is not true. For many students, a proper home is only a dream.

For most of us, it’s unimaginable to not have a place to lay our heads. No warm blankets, no hot food, no cable or internet. Curling up for bed in the back of a car, attempting to read textbooks by flashlight.

Some may say to themselves, this isn’t true. No one really lives like that. But they do. Many do. These people struggle and fight to make it through each day, trying to better themselves by attending college.

It’s a daunting life choice: going to college. Some look at it, weigh the costs, and simply turn away, and who can blame them. The cost of tuition, textbooks, and supplies, even with the aid of a student loan, can cause bankruptcy.

But students cannot live by school supplies alone. Nor can they properly live and study in the backseat of a car. It has been said, again and again, something must be done about student housing. But it is time to stop saying it, and actually do something.

It’s time to bring affordable housing to the students of Selkirk College. To reach out, hand-in-hand united, and say “enough.” Every student has a right to a home, a place to study, to sleep—to live.

They say education begins at home. But without a home, where can it begin?
It has to begin with us.