While most students at Cal Poly ate food at a dining table and slept in a warm bed under a roof in San Luis Obispo, Savannah Bosley spent the first two weeks of the fall quarter living out of her car. Bosley, a computer science sophomore at Cal Poly, said she couldn’t find a place […]
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ASI proposes program to allow houseless students to sleep in parked cars on campus
Associated Students, Inc. (ASI) Board of Directors voted on May 6 to approve a resolution to establish the Pilot Cal Poly Safe Parking Program, which would allow students to sleep in their parked cars overnight on campus. The vote to pass the resolution did not establish the pilot parking program at Cal Poly, but instead […]
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California COVID-19 Rent Relief Program now accepting applicants
San Luis Obispo County eligible tenants behind on their rent due to a COVID-19 hardship could receive between 25% and 80% of their overdue rent paid for under the California COVID-19 Rent Relief Program. Tenants are eligible if they can prove a COVID-19 related financial hardship and have past due rent, according to a press […]
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Housing scams: what to look out for
Finding off-campus housing for the upcoming school year can be an overwhelming time for many Cal Poly Students: endlessly scrolling through Zillow and Craigslist, filling out application after application, hoping to hear back from at least one realtor out of the dozens they have contacted. These stressful circumstances create the perfect opportunity for scammers to […]
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High demand, high prices: Cal Poly students scramble to find affordable housing
Food science sophomore Jena Lee spent $160 on application fees, only to be rejected by three property management companies and lose almost 20 houses to other applicants.
“We spent hundreds of dollars on housing applications, and we’ve reached out to countless leasing offices,” Lee said. “We came back with zero.”
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MN Exclusive: Cal Poly is housing more students on campus than any other Cal State
Cal Poly is housing more students than any other Cal state with about 4,500 students living on campus this month, according to a Mustang News review of university housing plans within the California State University (CSU) system.
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Muir Hall’s third floor in quarantine after two coronavirus cases
University Spokesperson Matt Lazier did not confirm whether the third floor of Muir Hall is under quarantine in place, writing through email that “specifying smaller sections of residential communities directed to quarantine in place could, in essence, create a HIPAA violation.”
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Limited water and becoming the ‘mask police’: RAs in yakʔitʸutʸu frustrated with housing officials
For three weeks, about 670 student residents in the yakʔitʸutʸu dorms had limited access to filtered water at night, so some of them resorted to drinking sink and shower water.
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Freshmen prepare for a socially distant life on campus
A poll posted on the “SLO Class of 2024” Facebook page showed about 234 students planned to live on campus as of Aug. 28 — accounting for 71 percent of the responses.
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Freshman housing application deadline extended
The university extended the date for incoming freshmen students to edit preferences on their housing application from May 7 to June 1 due to COVID-19 complications. The pandemic, which has caused unprecedented increases in employment, was a reason for concern among many incoming freshmen — some of whom voiced their difficulties paying the housing deposit […]
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Here’s what the housing market looks like in SLO County amid COVID-19
On March 25, Cal Poly announced via email that Spring quarter will be taught virtually, leaving students to reevaluate whether to stay in San Luis Obispo or return to their hometowns. “Right when the virus started to hit, I realized [we’d] be online the rest of the quarter,” business administration junior Ryan Blaser said. When […]