The Lumberjack STUDENTS OUTRAGED OVER HOUSING CRISIS

by August Linton and Camille Delany

On Feb. 4, CPH quietly updated the housing website without any notice to on-campus residents, leaving returning students to find out for themselves that they should not expect to live in the dorms or campus apartments for the remainder of their time at Humboldt.

On-campus housing will not be provided for any returning students. All on-campus housing will be reserved for new freshmen or transfers, starting in Fall ‘23. Should continuing students try to access housing through the university, they will be placed in temporary, off-campus housing.

“There was absolutely no email about it,” student Valeria Reggi said. “We found out by checking the website, which they updated with no warning.”

Due to a preexisting housing shortage that has left many students houseless, temporary options were explored in 2022 with the housing of over a hundred upperclassmen in the Comfort Inn motel.

A Feb. 6 email update stated that