UC Davis Students Open Townhouse For Their Peers Experiencing Homelessness

DAVIS (CBS13) – A radical of UC Davis students is giving back. Aggie House is simply a townhouse adjacent field for students struggling financially oregon experiencing homelessness.

Three founders are moving the structure are fourth-year students making a quality successful the lives of their peers.

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During freshman year, COVID-19 kept Marvin Lopez distant from the UC Davis campus.

“I was fundamentally connected Zoom the full time,” said Lopez a UC Davis Student who lives astatine the Aggie House.

Finally, sophomore twelvemonth rolled astir and Lopez was excited until his parents told him they couldn’t spend to nonstop him backmost to school.

“My dada said, ‘I don’t person wealth for you close now,’” helium said.

With obscurity to turn, a person referred him to Aggie House.

“I was capable to archer my parents, ‘hey, I person a place,'” helium said.

The Davis townhouse is simply a structure for UC Davis students experiencing homelessness.

“I wasn’t calved to person the luxury to person a bully starting constituent successful my beingness and my parents did everything they could and truthful I would truly similar to accidental convey you to you guys for helping maine out,” said Lopez.

Katie Shen, Allie O’Brien, and Ashley Lo are students astatine UC Davis and founded Aggie House, relying connected volunteers for help.

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“Aggie location is simply a registered students enactment with UC Davis,” said Katie Shen, 1 of the Aggie House founders.

The non-profit is funded done assemblage grants and donations, allowing residents to unrecorded successful the six-bedroom townhouse for free.

“They’re fixed up to a twelvemonth warrant to enactment here. Breakfast and meal are provided, they get lawsuit absorption services, assistance applying for fiscal aid, employment opportunities,” said Shen.

According to UC Davis, 18 percent of students acquisition homelessness.

“That tin look similar hazard of eviction sofa surfing surviving successful cars,” said O’Brien.

“There’s nary judgement present and we’re each moving unneurotic to assistance our residents,” said Lo.

For Lopez, location is precisely what this is.

“Thank you for taking the inaugural to assistance maine and others similar maine because. Sorry. Thank you to you guys,” helium said.

Several universities successful California are moving akin programs done a non-profit enactment called Students 4 Students.

UCLA’s Bruin Shelter and USC’s Trojan Shelter are conscionable 2 examples.

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The students moving Aggie House are hoping the thought takes disconnected nationwide.