Enrollment Grows Despite Housing Crunch at California Colleges and Universities

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🗓️ 7 March 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

UC Berkeley plans to keep fighting to build a dorm for more than 1,000 students on People’s Park, a university-owned site that is known as a haven for unhoused people and social justice movements. A state appellate court stopped the project and called for the university to revise its environmental impact report, looking more closely at noise impacts from students. The legal saga over the dorm illustrates a predicament many of the state’s colleges and universities face: a dire need to house a growing number of students amid community opposition to new housing. We’ll talk about why it’s so hard to build student housing in California. Guests: Su Jin Jez, CEO, California Competes - a nonpartisan policy and research organization focused on the intersection of higher education, equity, and the economy. Bill Fulton, urban planner, William Fulton Group; author, "Place and Prosperity: How Cities Help Us to Connect and Innovate" Ryan Loyola, student, UC Santa Cruz Katie Lauer, Berkeley news reporter, The Mercury News Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Support for Forum comes from Rancho La Puerta, boated the number one wellness resort and spa by readers of travel and leisure magazine in 2024.
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0:43.2	From KQidi in San Francisco, I'm Alexis Madrigal.
1:00.0	From the perspective of the rest of the world, California's universities are one of the great achievements in the United States.
1:06.0	Nine major research institutions in the UC system and 23 Cal State schools serve a wide variety of students.
1:13.6	But there's a catch.
1:15.0	Near the state's public institutions, there's a brutal lack of space for students to live in.
1:20.4	The state's big cities are inhospitable to young renters, and the schools themselves have
1:24.6	failed to build enough housing in the face of community opposition.
1:28.8	That's the backdrop for the latest in the People's Park saga, where UC Berkeley has been
1:33.4	trying and failing to build a thousand units of student housing on that history-rich patch of
1:38.7	earth.
1:39.6	That's all coming up next.
1:53.7	Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal. The history of People's Park is rich, stretching back to the days of the early Berkeley students' movements and a time when Ronald Reagan was the
1:58.9	governor of California. If you're interested in that, let me direct you to our show from August 17th of last year
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