AB 2766: Public postsecondary education: student housing: foster youth and homeless youth.

The bill aims to provide support to foster youth and homeless youth in higher education. It would extend the requirement for priority enrollment in higher education programs to current or former foster youth who are older than 25 years of age, as long as they are enrolled in the NextUp program. The bill would require higher education institutions to provide priority housing to current and former foster youth and homeless youth. This would include giving them first priority for residence in housing facilities that are open for uninterrupted year-round occupation, and then for housing that is open for occupation during the most days in the calendar year. Institutions would be required to ask students about their eligibility for priority housing in their student housing applications, defer the collection of housing-related costs for those students, and post information on their website abo…