Just FIVE DAYS before the start of move-in, UCLA notified students who paid for double-occupancy that they will be moving into rooms designated for triples – offering no action, alternatives, nor apology.

As a comparison, suite and plaza triple rooms cost roughly $11,000, while doubles cost roughly $14,000. Both room types are of the same dimensions, but vary in their number of furniture sets. Students have paid over thousands of extra dollars under the impression that they would live in the larger space of a double, with beds that were grounded rather than lofted. 

Numerous students had already purchased their own extra furnishings and made plans for the living space, before UCLA decided to issue such an irresponsibly late notice. Now, we have no choice but to live in a far more cluttered room than we expected.

Since this notice, the UCLA subreddit forum has been met with a deluge of complaints about UCLA housing’s abrupt and discourteous decision. Multiple students have expressed their dissatisfaction, ranging from bewilderment, disappointment, to feeling outright cheated.

UCLA Housing’s only announcement? An email telling students to get “creative” with the extra furniture. Under the guise of caring, UCLA Housing stated that they “wanted to prepare [us], so it wasn’t a surprise at move-in.” If they knew this was going to be such a surprise, why weren’t students more transparently informed during the housing selection process? Why, instead, wait all summer until the last week before move-in to send a notification? 

The primary issue boils down to a lack of action from UCLA for their mishandling of housing configurations, as well as an egregious untimeliness in their notification to affected students.

OUR DEMANDS

1. We demand the offering of alternative storage spaces on campus for the “extra furniture” in question, be it within residential buildings or elsewhere on the hill. Plenty of students are looking to find ways to remove the unneeded furniture sets entirely — even if we have to transport it ourselves.

2. We request the assistance of housing workers to disassemble the bunk beds within all resident rooms that have paid for double-occupancy rates, by reconfiguring them into ground-level single beds. Students should not have to clean up after the inconveniences caused by UCLA housing and risk the danger of reconfiguring the beds themselves.

3. We call for a formal apology from UCLA for their lack of actionable efforts offered to affected students, as well as their failure to inform students earlier of this abrupt change in our year-long room types.

It's unfair treatment and irresponsible behavior like this that erodes our Bruin community's trust in the UCLA administration — we cannot allow this institution to keep forcing compromises onto us students for UCLA’s own failures to plan accordingly.