Homeless San Jose State Professor Forced To Live In Her Car

Poor woman, she will be more happy teaching English abroad in Asia.

Students should demand that most of their money should go to the teacher, not the administrators.

A college can pay a masters degree teacher $30,000 a year to teach 4 classes? They are getting a deal, and simply ripping her off.

We need dorms for professors

Thanks for this story. I lost my teaching job to a layoff and ended up living in my car. I also racked up college loans trying to get a degree that I was told would help me keep my job, but I still got laid off. There are a lot of people who are still painfully naive about what's really going on in America.

Times have changed... God bless this woman. Stay strong.

California is just too DAMN expensive!!!! Move out!!!!

Homelessness is easy it has no face it can happen in minutes

For God's sake move to another state.

Yet we pay administrators 250k a year?

How do you walk into a classroom with a smile knowing at the end of the day you don't have a house to live in? I don't know how this woman does it.

It’s terrible to think that she’s a college professor and she’s homeless. It sounds awful that rent and the mortgage is so high in California. I give her a lot of credit for staying strong for the sake of her husband and their two dogs.

What an incredibly wonderful woman. I've been living in my car for five years. My dog has passed away. No family . male . and too no drug or alcohol in my life. She is right . she is very generous to her students and true to her self. Generous too to her ex and loves her dogs. What a wonderful soul she has. Hopeful And bountiful blessings to her and her loved ones coming her way.

Poor woman, I pray for you. I survived the wicked who took everything from me with a broken spine, and live in a single room occupancy in Pittsburgh on SSI. Thank goodness I am not homeless. I pray God makes your life better.

The reporter's characterization is incorrect when he says "new professors are struggling". Adjunct aren't necessarily new professors.

I moved out of California in 1990, and that's the best decision I could ever made. I'm a CNA and I made a lot more money then her as a professional. But I'm blessed because this job gives me the flexibility to work two full time jobs. Been in the health care field has given me the opportunity to always been able to provide for my family.

Even with all the other factors—With that student loan payment is what’s really killing her. Why on earth would a bank lend $143k to a person with that kind of salary expectation? Modern slavery. Prob owes $ on the car, too.

why is the husband unemployed there is always work to be done like dishwashing It's what I do I only make 1000 a month but it is better then nothing.

I'm sorry this is happening to her. She deserves better. Please hang in there, it will get better

I have never seen so many mean, un-adult comments, shame on all of you. You may one day (with any luck) be in her place with any luck. She is also 50 years old, the chance of her being able to fine a job in the Bay Area or even Seattle that would pay her for a decent place to live for herself, husband and dogs is very slim or non-existent. She is doing a hard job, trying to education young adult minds so that they may go on to a better life and job. I was also an IT professional (two degrees) when the dot com crash and 911 hit. I lost my very well paying job with great benefits and all my savings. I was never able to get back into IT, I ended up doing a lot of low paying demeaning jobs to keep a roof over my head and feed myself. Finally I ended up with my own business in the marina trades until I took a fall that shatter my left heel. I was forced into early retirement, I don't receive enough each month in retirement to live, less than $700/month, at 67 there are few jobs that will pay a living wage, so I drive Uber, almost 4 years and I'm damn good.