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Cody Huynh showed up at a condominium in La Jolla recently hoping to find a place to rent after UC San Diego hit him with unexpected news it had run out of undergraduate housing for the fall quarter.
Things were worse than he imagined.
“Three other families were there looking to rent the same place,” said Huynh, a sophomore from Anaheim. “I’m feeling anxious. I don’t know where I’m going to live.”
Thousands of UCSD students are facing the same uncertainty.
For years, the university in La Jolla has increased enrollment faster than it has added housing. A record number of students possibly as many as 41,000 are expected when classes begin Sept. 23. And this fall’s housing supply is complicated by COVID-19 UCSD is sticking with its pandemic-related decision to reduce density in housing, eliminating 2,074 beds.
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