While the increase in graduate student housing is commendable, there seems to have been inadequate attention to its growing unaffordability.
The cost of the average UCSD graduate housing bed has grown by 52% in only 4 years (2016-2020), while UCSD graduate student pay has increased by 13% in the same period.
*Note: The green line reflects "30% rule" of the amount of one's salary to be spent on housing