The person that wrote this petition is a homeless college student.

Please make it a priority for low income students, homeless students, and financially independent to receive priority consideration for financial aid, and scholarship students. As well as making it a priority to giving housing aid to homeless college students.

I know that the pell grant was not created for people who could already pay for college. We don't need to give money to the already monetarily overcompensated. So if a few people have to pay for their college that could, because some homeless people got their grants then so be it. It'll increase our tax base, they'll do good in school and get good jobs, and we the tax payers will all be proud.

Cause see before now, I was unable to prove that I was financially independent of my parents, even though I lived on the street (even while working,) for almost 7 years. Before I could enter college and I had to struggle to get into programs which you should be expanding like Job Corps, and California Conservation Corps, they really do work.

I have been told time and time again that there is no priority for low income students to be processed for financial aid, and scholarships.

Here in California, under California's Community College, I was even told that I was not going to receive consideration for financial aid monies connected to housing, while I was at College of the Redwoods.

It is only an illusion that in this land of plenty that we don't have enough, for the poor. This is the lie that confronts us today.

There are more homeless college students than you think. Just look at the amount of University Police reports of students sleeping in their cars. I slept outside College of the Redwoods in a bevy sack for the whole 2005 fall semester. Right behind the Dorms.

But I wasn't able to receive enough financial aid to stay in the dorms, and most of the people staying in the dorms do not receive financial aid. Which is really sad, because I think that they could pay that exorbitant fee of 3,000 dollars a semester for the dorm, and the 'mandatory' meal plan, that only gives a discount on the food.

So please think about suggesting legislation to manage school dormitories to help low income, domiciliary impaired students like myself receive dorm rooms or even low income housing while we go to school.

I know allot of other homeless college students, they sleep in their cars, or out in the woods with me, and worry about how the other students or teachers look at them, and I have seen acts of discrimination myself so please tell them that education is a right, not a privilege of the privileged.

I know that the pell grant was not created for people who could already pay for college. We don't need to give money to the already monetarily overcompensated. So if a few people have to pay for their college that could, because some homeless people got their grants then so be it. It'll increase our tax base, they'll do good in school and get good jobs, and we the tax payers will all be proud.

Cause see before now, I was unable to prove that I was financially independent of my parents, even though I lived on the street (even while working,) for almost 7 years. Before I could enter college and I had to struggle to get into programs which you should be expanding like Job Corps, and California Conservation Corps, they really do work.

I am now tutoring several students, and I received 3 A's and a B, at College of the Redwoods so all that lip service about Homeless People being unable to achieve academically I guess that was just lip service.

So please keep us lowly-scruffy-guttersnipe-streetscum-academe-bound people in mind as you make your decisions.

Thank you.