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UCLA should consider converting at least one of their parking lots to affordable multistory apartment buildings for public servants in order to make up for the budget deficit brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. (Daniel Leibowitz/Daily Bruin staff)

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Op-ed: UCLA should lower budget deficit by converting parking into affordable housing

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Here’s what shrinking university budgets and a housing paucity could have in common. In the recent past and likely into the next generation, it is hard to imagine that public universities will receive adequate state and federal funding to carry out their missions to educate the next generation’s workforce.

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Op-ed: UCLA should lower budget deficit by converting parking into affordable housing

By Richard Dion

July 28, 2020 10:55 a.m.