Cerritos College in Los Angeles County was about to cancel plans to build affordable dorms for 396 students at rents of just above $700 a month. Another community college, Sierra College in Rocklin, was planning to abandon construction of homes for 354 students at rents of $450 a month. Now two bills are making their way through the Legislature that will allow those projects to continue and reverse a June budget deal that panicked community colleges.
