Man arrested on suspicion of harassing students at Upper Eastside Lofts
September 12, 2019
A man suspected of harassing students at the Upper Eastside Lofts apartment complex was arrested and detained earlier this month. The apartment complex, only 1.2 miles from Sacramento State, reported a man later identified as Tyler Kruse to security Sept. 1. When security responded it was discove...
‘Situational homelessness’: 286 residents still awaiting move-in at apartments near Sac State
Margherita Beale and Jordan Silva-Benham
August 30, 2019
The 286 residents who are still awaiting move-in at Academy65, an apartment complex near Sacramento State primarily aimed at students, were asked to sign a lease addendum and general release Thursday, according to some residents. Academy65 residents were originally scheduled for an Aug. 21 move-in date. However, offici...
VIDEO: Sac State welcomes 1,680 new residents to campus dorms
Kelly Kiernan, Video editor
August 24, 2019
Sacramento State welcomed new residents on Move-In Day Friday when 1,680 students moved into the residence halls on the north end of campus, according to Housing Operations. According to Samuel Jones, director of Housing Operations and Conference Services, the increased demand for housing this semeste...
We asked students to tell us how the housing crisis has affected them. Here’s what they said.
The State Hornet
February 28, 2018
As a part of our coverage of the housing crisis, The State Hornet conducted a month-long survey in which we asked, among other things, for students to explain how the high cost of housing has affected them. The following are some of their responses. For more on this issue, go to StateHornet.com...
‘It’s Sacramento, not you’: Students caught in the crosshairs of statewide housing crisis
February 28, 2018
Five days a week, Sacramento State junior Bailey Bernardi goes to work at 4 a.m. and then makes her way to school. But even though she makes over $14 an hour, she is barely making ends meet paying living expenses. Bernardi is just one Sacramentan dealing with the ramifications of a statewide housing crisis...
TESTIMONIAL: I slept in my car for over a year. No one knew.
February 28, 2018
t’s been almost five years since I was last homeless. In that time, I’ve forgotten plenty of the details and the stories I accrued over a year and a half of sleeping on couches and in my Nissan Sentra. But I’ll never forget the feelings of isolation, depression and fear. It started when I gra...
TESTIMONIAL: Spending my first week at Sac State homeless
February 28, 2018
n my first week at Sacramento State, I found myself homeless; however, a helpful stranger made me feel like I was family. On my flight to Sacramento from LAX, the only thing I had with me was my luggage, some Cheetos and $90 to my name. When I was on my way to start a new chapter in my life I w...
TESTIMONIAL: Finishing college for my son’s future
February 28, 2018
always figured homelessness would be something sort of, you know, obvious? Instead, it snuck up on me. When you don’t make a lot of money — and last semester I was working part time and interning — it quickly becomes harder and harder to replace the things you’re missing. I was power-commu...
TESTIMONIAL: Couch surfing my way through winter break
February 28, 2018
fter my first semester of living in Sacramento State student housing, paying $34 dollars a night to stay there over winter break without access to The Dining Commons or The Market was not an option. I had just paid $1,946 out of my pocket toward housing when cold winter break came. I was so upset that I had to...
Sac State student goes into debt with long commute to campus
Thomas Frey, News editor
February 28, 2018
olan Jolly’s day started early and it started with stress. From waking up in a trailer that didn’t always have heat, he would then fight traffic through his 40-mile commute to campus that began in the city of Rescue where he lived. After a long day of classes, he returned home through that same ti...
