21% of students last fall reported they had lacked a safe, regular and adequate nighttime place to stay and sleep.
The regents and the governor are now asking the state Supreme Court to intervene, warning that without a stay of the lower-court order the university will have to reduce by 3,050 the number of new students it plans to admit later this year.
If it takes a judge’s order to wake up state officials to Cal’s student housing crisis, then so be it. Even if the Supreme Court intervenes and stays Seligman’s order while the appellate court reviews the merits of his decision, and even if it is overturned, the crisis will remain. We can’t keep making the housing shortage worse. We can’t keep expecting students to live out of their cars or sleep on friends’ sofas while attending one of the nation’s premier universities. University officials say theybuilding housing for 11,730 more students by 2037. But there’s no clear plan, much less funding, for doing that.
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