Category Archives: Enterprise

Every morning during the summer of 2010, Seth Wing walked to Kerckhoff Hall from his van, parked on Veteran Avenue, with a cup of instant oatmeal in his hand and ready to start the day. That summer, before he graduated with a degree in geography/environmental studies and a minor in geospatial information systems and technologies, […]

Nearly 40 of the most elite universities in the U.S. have more students from the top 1 percent of income brackets than the bottom 60 percent. And that inequality is readily visible in the University of California. With rising tuition costs and housing prices, it’s no wonder middle-class and low-income Americans struggle to pay for […]

X had dreamed of attending UCLA since she first visited the campus in elementary school. But when she finally came to UCLA, the college experience she had hoped for was interrupted by periods of housing and food insecurity. X is a fifth-year humanities student who has experienced homelessness while at UCLA. She has requested anonymity […]

Paavo Monkkonen, associate professor of urban planning at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, studies the relationship between land-use regulations and segregation of housing by income in California. Monkkonen said part of the housing crisis in West Los Angeles is due to strict, outdated zoning regulations in densely populated areas. Consequently, housing costs have […]

The Economic Crisis Response Team, launched in 2008 as a subset of the Student Affairs office, assists students in immediate and dire financial crisis. There are four forms of aid students can receive through ECRT: meal vouchers, emergency housing, one-time grants or emergency short-term loans. Students who qualify for the meal voucher program can receive […]