Akirah Bradley-Armstrong

Students need housing. That is why UC Santa Cruz must move forward and build Student Housing West, write administrators Akirah Bradley-Armstrong and Ed Reiskin. “UCSC is built into a stunning natural landscape, and building anywhere on our iconic campus is a tightrope walk,” they say. But Student Housing West — with 3,000 units, including 140 at the foot of campus — offers the best chance to house students soon and to help relieve the community housing burden.