Colleges Are Beginning to Tackle Student Homelessness

Miguel Ortiz-Cruz was a junior at North Carolina State University when Hurricane Florence hit. Three years earlier, he had come to the Raleigh-based university on a full-ride scholarship. A year later, he planned to graduate from NC State’s College of Education with a degree in graphic communications. But now, he had to figure out how to maintain his education while his family home, a few hours from campus, had been badly damaged, rendering his family homeless.