Student housing 101: How to always have a backup plan
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Besides keeping one’s options open, what may be lacking in an often hectic search for housing is a savvy, resourceful and calm mentality.
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To UC Berkeley: Students deserve far better than bedbugs and broken washing machines
CAMPUS ISSUES: Students cannot be expected to succeed academically while living in appalling campus housing conditions
Last month, an anonymous Facebook post on the Confessions from UC Berkeley page exposed abysmal living conditions in Stern Hall, the only all-women undergraduate residence hall on campus. Despite numerous complaints by students alleging issues of vermin on site, cold showers and broken washing machines, these concerns have yet to be completely resolved.
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Stern Hall residents speak out on living conditions
With the end of spring break, Stern Hall resident Elaine Calzada left behind her cozy bed in Montebello to return to the thinly-carpeted concrete floor that, since February, has been her bed at UC Berkeley.
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Group living amendments are a testament to the power of student activism
CITY AFFAIRS: The amendments to the Group Living Accommodations Ordinance are a step in the right direction for student housing. But now it’s up to the city to follow through.
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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Student housing may come to Telegraph Avenue lot after decadeslong vacancy
The lot’s owner, Ken Sarachan, was granted a permit to build the proposed residential structure in February 2017, and submitted a request to modify the permit on May 4. The modification would allow for about 12 more bedrooms to be added to the existing plans for the structure, according to Berkeley City Councilmember Kriss Worthington.
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How the university and the city are trying to solve Berkeley’s housing crisis
Students go to great lengths to be able to study at UC Berkeley. Ultimately, housing should not be what is keeping devoted students from higher education.
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City Council to fund housing for low-income and homeless students
Berkeley City Council voted to direct revenue generated by development projects near campus toward housing for extremely low-income or homeless college students during its regular meeting Tuesday evening.
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Campus remains committed to improving student housing availability
I was both moved and motivated by The Daily Californian’s feature on Hash Khan, a UC Berkeley undergraduate living in a school bus. His compelling story lends strong support to Chancellor Carol Christ’s decision to make the development of new, affordable housing a key priority for the campus. The chancellor
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Student Housing Subcommittee can focus the city’s attention to solving student housing affordability crisis
Rent day is coming, a day we all dread. Do I need to skip a meal or work an extra shift instead of studying to make sure I have enough money to pay the rent? Maybe we can squeeze in another roommate in the living room. Despite the rental woes
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More comprehensive review of Berkeley housing crisis needed
In their op-ed, Igor Tregub and Marian Wolfe, members of Berkeley’s Housing Advisory Commission, assert that “developers of market-rate housing use these higher rents so that their projects ‘pencil out,’ making the probability of more affordable rents unlikely, at least in the near-term.” The authors falsely suggest that future rents
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