Silicon Valley is getting so pricey a university is pleading with professors to house students

Last week, the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) emailed about 6,000 faculty members asking them to consider housing “several hundred students without housing guarantees on the waiting list for housing.” Rental properties in the beachside town are scarce, and the university admitted about 7,000 students this year, up from 5,300 last year, according to the Santa Cruz Sentinel. More...