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I’m happy for these students, and the housing stipend they managed to get will help them, but I don’t think it’s a net positive overall. It just adds more demand to the local housing market, so a different set of people on the margins end up homeless. The only way to improve the situation is to build more housing.

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UCSC is sitting on a lot of land while offloading housing onto Santa Cruz

And as a state entity they can develop their land without approval from local governments, one of the largest obstacles to new construction. UCSF has used this to great effect in San Francisco.

That's interesting. UC employees aren't classified as state employees, they are employed by the regents. CSU employees are state employees.

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