The trouble is that without overall housing growth, the university can "giveth and taketh away": "grant" a COLA of some nominal amount, while also running a campaign to weaponize towny NIMBYism against grad-students by accusing grads of taking housing that "rightfully" belongs to "real" Berkeley residents, rather than admitting that Berkeley isn't a damned bedroom community anymore and just building some dense, subsidized grad housing on campus property.
> while also running a campaign to weaponize towny NIMBYism against grad-students by accusing grads of taking housing that "rightfully" belongs to "real" Berkeley residents
What? Why would UC Berkeley want to do that, to make itself less appealing as a destination for graduate studies? There’s zero incentive, this is such a silly hypothetical.
