UCI On-Campus Housing Problems

The resident councils of the Graduate and Family housing communities at UCI, Palo Verde and Verano, have created a website where residents of both communities can keep themselves informed about the current affairs in their communities. While each commu… more »

In their infinite wisdom (NOT), the UCI Housing Administration has decided to move 89 undergraduates (plus 1 Resident's Assistant, who also is an undergrad) into Palo Verde Graduate and Family housing. Not surprisingly, they didn't tell the Palo Verde… more »

Over the last month or so, the Housing administration has come up with a couple of scenarios to find out if and how they can fulfill the looming On-Campus housing term limits. They don't like to discuss the fact that the term limits are a bad idea in t… more »

As I had mentioned here already, UCI wants to implement 3-year term limits for residents. While people who moved into graduate housing before June 1, 2002 are exempt from this because of an agreement with the administration after the "tent city" protes… more »

The shortage of affordable housing for UCI graduate students has long been known. In the past, this has led to student protests, like the "tent city" in the central UCI park in 2002 (see here and here for accounts of the protests.) For most graduate s… more »

I just received an answer from Bryan McCormick, the person responsible for operations in PV, regarding the accusatory letter they had sent out earlier today: I am the one that requested my staff look at the doorways around the property. I did not giv… more »

There hasn't been much activity on this blog, because PV Housing seemed to improve in their communication with residents. But, an email several people, me included, received this morning shows that beauty is only skin-deep... The email accuses people… more »