A group of University of Colorado graduate students has asked the city to address affordable housing for graduate students.
A representative of the Boulder Committee on Rights and Compensation, a graduate student advocacy group and labor organization seeking a collective bargaining agreement with the university, appeared at the City Council meeting Tuesday. The CRC also provided a list of recommendations to the Housing Advisory Board ahead of the board’s meeting Wednesday.
“We’re looking for ways to alleviate the housing crisis that’s happening among the graduate students right now,” graduate student Carly Anderson Stewart told the council during open comment Tuesday. “We’re here today to directly ask the council if you’ll make some kind of special provisions enabling more graduate students to become eligible for low-income housing.
“At a median house price of about $850,000, it’s expensive to live in Boulder even if you make a living wage, and many, probably most, graduate students don’t make a living wage — not even close.”
At the end of Anderson Stewart’s comment, Councilwoman Lisa Morzel told her the CU Board of Regents would be another outlet for possible solutions.
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