Sarah Svoboda

Nestled on the Northern California coast among forests of towering redwood trees is Cal Poly Humboldt, one of 23 campuses in the California State University system, the largest public university network in the U.S. The campus is home to a number of students whose struggle to afford both the increasing cost of a college education and California’s high cost of housing has led to living in their vehicles. “I don’t feel homeless, but I am legally homeless,” said Brad Butterfield, a journalism studen…