Students protest Amazon plans
By Koalam Roberts
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Plans to rebuild Amazon family housing may
put student families on the streets amt fort e them
to abandon their educations. a group of Amazon
ten.mts said Thursday
About to student parents said their t om erns
are not being represented and challenged plan
ners. housing ■■representatives and administrators
to more adequately address the cost of the pro
posed new units
They tailed for the administration to increase
support of low-income student parents
"We understand (Amazon)will have to he re
built But we're willing to live in the most miser
able conditions the law w ill allow said lames
Kisher. a graduate student in architecture
The University announced in Tehruarv that
Amazon would be rebuilt alter a 1 'ruversity mill
missioned report said the structures were habit
able only until 1 non
The project is also a response to the lOH'l Ore
gon Legislature, which said the l 'ruversity helped
contribute to a housing shortage iri the lingerie
area and allocated $11 million in bonding lor
new University housing Bonding money will be
repaid with student rent
Concerned tenants have formed Students for
Low-Income Housing, a sub-committee of the
Amazon Tenants Council, to assure the continu
ance of housing
Kent for a two-liedroorn apartment at Amazon
could be raised from S14J a month to as much as
S42.r). This is 1(1 percent lielow the market rate
but unaffordable for single mothers on welfare
and families facing tuition increases and a 10 per
cent reduction in child care subsidies
Tenants said this increase would defeat the
purpose of the bonding measure and would fort e
many out into the local housing market
They also questioned whether tile housing pro
ject was necessary in light of decreasing Universi
ty enrollment Amazon has about 10 vacancies
and has begun admitting single graduate students
into apartments
dents into apartments
Many voiced outrage al the ari.Inter I s design
statement for the rebuilt Amazon They said the
IVe understand fAmazon) will
have to be rebuilt. But we’re
willing to live in the most
miserable conditions the law
will allow.’
James Fisher,
awr-.i.v student
plan mentions pun,Is wmdjr.g . k w i -, s ,i .'tin
year life .span all'll :.,;m'its tl it :ir ik-' r :.. ■! i, 11 e
imp.n t on you w hen von w .ilk :
"Nowhere in there is there any ,ni!n .itma i '
I Civs i nst. It* her Said
The students sail-! the t 'nivetsdv ;re,| him
Berkley .111 Intel i t hnslophei \: -s r I ■ vs I
vs as . 11 si > 'author of the University .impiis :11,1s
ter plan in 1 '170
Alexander Is paid about J percent me than .in
average art lute. t. said Dan WiJJiaitis. 1 inv.isitv
v H e presnlent for administration
However, the tenants said Alexander was 1 ho
sen In a group ol planners anil housing repo-sen
I at ivns vs ho do n lit represent student interests
Amazon tenant Hillary Moser sod many ten
.lilts believe their representatives n the Use!
group .ire arc hitei lore students who selei to I \l
exundor because he would he ev .ting in vs, ik
with, not hei ause lie would de .e.'n the lovse-.t
cost housing
Moser, a single mother ol one who graduate,I
last term, suggested University planners use the
stall- prototype for low ini nine housing and Idle 1
contrai tor rntfier than an expensive an hite* 1
The students challenged the University to de
velop .1 fundraising effort lor lamlly housing m
the same wav they raise money fot athletics or
1 ampus projix ts
" The bottom line IS access to education lor
those who 1 an afford it least. said University
Planning Assoi late l ied Tepfer
However. Tepler sanl the user group, made up
ol Amazon tenants planners an bite* ts and hon
ing representatives, is not the best lorum lor stu
dents concerns
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