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If successful, Arreguín — Berkeley’s youngest mayor in over a century — will serve a second four-year term. Arreguín is also the city’s first Latinx mayor.
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The recent amendments to the Group Living Accommodations, or GLA, Ordinance, are significant examples of how student activism can give rise to much-needed change. Berkeley is in a housing crisis that students are anything but sheltered from. The campus has time and again fallen short on providing sufficient solutions
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UC Berkeley students make up about a quarter of the total city population, says Berkeley City College history professor emeritus and former chair of social sciences Charles Wollenberg — a fact that makes student housing not only a campus issue, but a city one as well.
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Just one week after approving a resolution to facilitate student housing projects, Berkeley City Council will once again discuss student housing, specifically for homeless and extremely low-income students.
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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.
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