“…One persisting conversation centering economic factors includes access to basic needs like food and housing security (Bruening et al, 2017;El Zein et al, 2019;Goldrick-Rab et al, 2019;Greenberg et al, 2021;Valle et al, 2023). When basic economic needs are unmet, students experience critical challenges to their well-being, performance, and retention (Balzer Carr & London, 2020;Martinez et al, 2018;Payne-Sturges et al, 2018;Phillips et al, 2018;Ryan et al, 2018). These challenges are especially heightened for low-income students of color who navigate economic familial hardships, which were only exacerbated by the onset of COVID-19 pandemic (Basch et al, 2022;Soria et al, 2020;Vargas & Sanchez, 2020).…”