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UCSC parenting students tell Regents rent hikes and new lease language exclude families and deepen housing burden
Summary
A long public comment from the newly elected UCGPC president and UCSC student leaders described steep rent increases, new family-housing lease language that restricts access, and called for emergency and structural responses from UC leadership.
Stephanie Valadez, the newly elected president of the UC Graduate and Professional Council and a PhD student, used public comment on July 17 to deliver detailed testimony about housing cost spikes, family housing lease language, and the effects on parenting and family students at UC Santa Cruz.
Valadez said the UCSC family student housing rent increase is 32% and that new lease terms narrow the definition of "family," excluding many caregiving households including some LGBTQ+…
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