San Jose State students demand university address needs of homeless students

San Jose State students are demanding their university address homelessness two years after school officials vowed to tackle the problem, the Mercury News reported.

At a rally Wednesday, activists said students are still sleeping in cars and the campus library and living in unstable situations two years after the university promised to prove emergency funds to ease the crisis.

“We’ve been calling press conferences since last October. We’ve been doing marches,” Samantha Shinagawa, a senior at the university, said. “And the administration still has been neglecting the agreement we agreed upon two years ago at this point,” the newspaper reported.

Interim campus President Stephen Perez told the newspaper he plans to meet with the group on Thursday. He contends the university has addressed “a number” of the issues raised by student advocates. “But we can do better,” Perez said.