Campus & community

From the first dorms in 1929, campus housing has come a long way

From early housing cooperatives during the Great Depression to fights for racial and gender parity on campus, housing has been on the frontlines of the battle for student welfare throughout UC Berkeley’s history

By Public Affairs

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A July 2, 1926 photo of Bowles Hall under construction. (Photo courtesy of Bowles Hall Foundation)

August 20, 2019

From early housing cooperatives during the Great Depression to fights for racial and gender parity on campus, housing has been on the frontlines of the battle for student welfare throughout UC Berkeley’s history. Listen to “Sleeping with the Light On: Housing and Community at Berkeley,” the first episode of season four of the Berkeley Remix, a podcast from the Oral History Center of the Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley, about the history of campus housing.