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A UC Santa Cruz student recently sent a request for available housing to Nextdoor after she and her seven roommates were out on the streets because the owner sold the property without warning them.
It’s the university’s job to provide housing for its students and it hasn’t lived up to this job for years. I advised the students to voice their situation to the chancellor. If not, I told them I would. The UCSC admissions office keeps signing up too many applicants for whom there is not enough housing.
When will they stop? If the students can find other students in the same situation, I suggest asking them to protest in front of the chancellor’s office and the housing office.
UCSC has a lot of property (which it refuses to develop) on which temporary housing could be erected in time for fall term 2026.
Kathy Cheer
Santa Cruz
