The News Letter | After Pressure on Housing, UCSB Expedites Munger Dorm
The Cause and Effect of Community Journalism
The Munger Residence Hall would stand 159 feet tall, just below the height of UCSB's Storke Tower. | Credit: Courtesy
We won’t take all the credit, but we’ll take some.
Two weeks ago, the Independent broke a story about how a major housing shortage at UCSB is contributing to our regional housing crisis. The university, it turns out, is way behind on new construction promised in its 2010 Long Range Development Plan, to the tune of some 3,500 beds for students and 1,500 units for faculty and staff.
Given Santa Barbara County’s drum-tight market, those figures qualify as a very big deal and a very big problem — so much so that the county and a group of housing advocates may sue UCSB for failing to accommodate its ever-growing ranks.
