Nuha Khalfay

Staying in Urban Shield hurts the city and the community. It reinforces the deeply concerning behavior we want our police officers to overcome.

The UC Board of Regents, which acts as the governing body of the UC system, has the “full powers of organization and government” according to the California State Constitution. This power is most obviously and publicly exhibited through raising tuition, increasing the salaries of UC chancellors and prolonging UC worker contract negotiations.

As campus leaders, we ask ourselves what more could we be doing to support the healing and survival of all community members.

While such local actions are essential to alleviating the affordable student housing crisis, steps must simultaneously be taken to restructure rent ordinances in order to ensure that students living off-campus in residential units do not continue to suffer the burden of increasing rent rates.