UC Village
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UC Village, also called University Village, is a housing community for students who are married or have dependents that is owned and administered by the University of California, Berkeley. It is located within the city limits of Albany about two miles away from the main Berkeley campus. It was previously known as Albany Village. It is also commonly referred to as The Village.
The village was constructed on the Gill Tract, a marshy area at the foot of Codornices and Marin Creeks. It began as a federal housing project for some of the thousands of workers who came to the San Francisco Bay Area to work in various war industries during World War II, especially the Kaiser Shipyards in nearby Richmond. It originally extended across the city limits demarcated by Codornices Creek into an adjacent neighborhood of Berkeley as far south as Camelia Street, but after the war ended and the village was acquired by the University of California, the Berkeley section was demolished and replaced by various industrial buildings.
During the war, the Key System constructed a massive wooden trestle through and over the heart of the village and the nearby Southern Pacific railroad's mainline for the Shipyard Railway to Kaiser Shipyards. It was quickly dismantled at the end of the war.
In more recent years the university has begun a process of replacing the old barracks-style buildings with modern townhouses. Student protests over the increase in rental costs have resulted in the filming of a documentary regarding affordable student family housing.
In September, 2007, most of the oldest remaining World War II era buildings were demolished.
[edit] See also
- UC Berkeley student housing
- Student Family Housing - Problem & Solution (video documentary)
[edit] References
- A Selective History of the Codornices-University Village..., by Warren and Catherine Lee, Imprint (Albuquerque, N.M.): Belvidere Delaware Railroad Company Enterprises, Ltd., (2000)
- Affordable Student Family Housing - UC Berkeley
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