7/14/2023 0 Comments Diablo valley college dormsThe UC Berkeley housing shortage and admissions policies pit residents who want the university to build more student housing before admitting more students against the university, that argues it has been building housing and doesn’t want to turn away thousands of students from its incoming freshman class. “I am lucky that I live relatively close to Berkeley in order to visit apartments in person, but I often have to make more than one trip visiting six to 10 apartments,” Jones said. Not only is it tough to find somewhere suitable to live, but landlords don’t always welcome a nine-month lease to align with the university’s academic calendar. She thinks the most reliable listing is a Google spreadsheet made by Berkeley students. Every year she scours websites, including Craigslist and other Berkeley housing pages, all of which are riddled with scams. However, finding this place did not come easy. “My senior year, I was in a one-bedroom apartment with four gals total, two in the bedroom and two in the living room.” The cost for each person was $800 a month.Ĭurrently, Jones is living in a room by herself, but the building offers a communal kitchen and bathroom. “Ever since the guaranteed housing my first year as an undergrad, housing has been a struggle,” Jones said. “Like it’s been this way for a long time.” “I feel like overcrowding doesn’t just happen out of nowhere,” she said. She, like many others, wishes for solutions to the housing shortage. First-year students are guaranteed housing in a dorm. Huyhn is still excited about going to Berkeley in the fall, but she worries about where she will live after her freshman year. And students are still caught in the middle.įor unhoused students, attending Berkeley presents hardships that complicate daily academic life at a prestigious sought-after university. Neither did the battle between Berkeley residents and the university on how to address the issues. She would be attending her dream school after all.īut the housing shortage that had prompted the enrollment freeze in the first place didn’t go away. ![]() Students in the program report and photograph stories under the guidance of professional journalists.Īfter a new state law enabled the University of California-Berkeley to sidestep a court-ordered enrollment cap, incoming freshman Angela Huynh felt relieved. Editor’s note: This story was produced for Mosaic Vision, a pilot project of the Mosaic Journalism Workshop for Bay Area high school students.
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