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"The University of California, Santa Cruz is proposing significant changes to the campus trailer park set up 30 years ago to help house financially strapped students.The university wants to replace the student-owned RVs with university-owned RVs, and instead of year-round occupancy, students would be required to move out during breaks and summer. Those residency restrictions have some students concerned.\"It's really important to keep that aspect of the trailer park because without it we're just like people living in dorms. We all came here for the community aspect,\" Maddy Corich said.Corich owns her trailer at the UC Santa Cruz Camper Park.The university said students who own a trailer and graduate will be able to sell the RV on the open market or the university could remove it for free and buy it for $2,500.Students would be taking a big financial hit but it's not all about the money.\"Their plan essentially makes it so new people come in every year, and there's certain traditions in our park that make it what it is. There's a certain amount of safety that everyone feels. There are people here from multiple generations,\" Corich said.The university wants to maintain the trailer park as a housing option and with the RVs owned by the university, UC Santa Cruz hopes to make it more affordable for the students who live there.Housing rules would be similar to dorm living. Students would live in the park through the academic year but would be required to move out for the summer and winter break periods.\"The camper park would be part of our offering of all sorts of different kinds of housing. So we have apartment-style, we have students living in closer quarters and camper parks would be done in a similar fashion to that,\" said Scott Hernandez-Jason, director of news and media relations at UC Santa Cruz.Students living in the trailer park admit the campers need upgrades and are willing to work with the university, but they have a plan: Replace the campers with \"tiny homes.\u201D\"We would like to lease the land through a third-party nonprofit, take out the trailers, move into sustainable tiny homes that are up to code and safety regulations and then instead of having to purchase the home to move in, you would simply pay rent,\" said Megan White, a UC Santa Cruz sophomore who lives in a trailer at the camper park.\"The university is intrigued by the tiny homes idea,\u201D Hernandez-Jason said.The university is looking into the students tiny homes proposal. Until it's all squared away, graduating students are asked to either sell their RV's to the university or on the open market.Talks between the university and the camper owners are ongoing but no formal discussions are currently planned.\u00A0"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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