UC San Diego says it will broadly reinstate the two-year, on-campus housing guarantee that was available to incoming undergraduates before the pandemic forced the school to thin its housing stock.
The reinstated guarantee will be primarily aimed at incoming freshmen and sophomores to help them acclimate to university life and to avoid the highly competitive and expensive private housing market off campus. But other undergraduates also will have access, based on supply.UCSD expects to house as many as 18,022 students when the fall quarter starts on Sept. 19. That would be a record, and it would partly be made possible by UCSD’s decision to allow up to three students to live in some rooms.
“We are aware that finding housing at affordable prices is becoming increasingly difficult throughout California,” Khosla said in a statement. “In response, we have enhanced our strategies to address the housing shortage and return to guarantees suspended during the pandemic.”