The UC system does provide housing for some graduate students, but they do not have enough housing for all graduate students. When I was working on my PhD at U

The UC system does provide housing for some graduate students, but they do not have enough housing for all graduate students. When I was working on my PhD at UCLA, I lived in a UCLA-owned studio apartment for the first three years. The apartment was pretty nice actually. The rent was around $1625/month including all utilities in 2018. But you can only live in university-owned apartments for three years max. I had to move into a different place after that. I really would have preferred to stay, but I was lucky to get an apartment there in the first place.