Students who applied want to go there specifically. It would be hubris to think we could comprehend the 7 thousand individual reasons each student chose to go t

Students who applied want to go there specifically. It would be hubris to think we could comprehend the 7 thousand individual reasons each student chose to go there. I’m not sure why the administration decided to accept more students than usual, but it’s a problem That exists even if you accept a normal number of applicants. Every year more people move to economically vibrant areas in Northern California, but established land owning voters(and renters afraid of displacement) block every attempt to build new housing. This simple equation of demand being ten times supply pushes the price of housing up to insane levels and squeezes the least fortunate out the bottom. Why can’t we just admit that we are ethically required to permit sufficient housing in our cities? (I mean permit in the literal senses of both to allow and to issue building permits for) If we fail to do that we squeeze out the poor, elderly, less skilled —exacerbating the homelessness crisis worsening traffic (since normal people like clerks, teachers and baristas have to commute from outside the city for jobs in the city) and creating a bland monoculture. My immediate remedy is: how about we stop blocking every effort to build new housing?