There is a housing construction boom on campus. But UC San Diego students have found themselves sleeping some distance from it or even in cars to go to school.
Raymond Tran, the editor of the UCSD Guardian, a campus newspaper, told reporter Robbins that the new shortage “is causing anxiety among students because it’s so hard to find apartments off-campus. You might have to go far away from campus and take a 40-minute bus ride to get here.”
University officials had said they would add 2,000 student beds this fall in a new complex, but now say only 430 of those beds will be ready. They began building other residential areas with thousands of student beds in June to keep up with demand. For the time being, they have negotiated discounted rental rates at an off-campus hotel for those students who are willing to stay at it for at least 90 days.
For the last two years, UC San Diego admitted fewer than 25 percent of its freshman applicants amid its housing shortage. It admitted more than a third of them in fall 2021, so it deserves some credit for curbing its admissions rate. And the construction delays can at least partly be blamed on supply chain issues and a very wet winter, as officials have stated. But in the end, it’s Econ 101: supply and demand. Growth isn’t always a good problem to have.
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