rich 1.0 Action Network https://actionnetwork.org <link href='https://actionnetwork.org/css/style-embed-v3.css' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' /><script src='https://actionnetwork.org/widgets/v6/petition/mit-support-a-better-world-by-housing-graduate-students?format=js&source=widget'></script><div id='can-petition-area-mit-support-a-better-world-by-housing-graduate-students' style='width: 100%'><!-- this div is the target for our HTML insertion --></div> MIT Graduate Student Apartments Now (GSAN) https://actionnetwork.org/groups/mit-grad-students-for-fair-housing https://can2-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/petitions/photos/000/055/023/normal/Volpe.png MIT has a once-in-a-generation opportunity to leverage the redevelopment of the Volpe site in Kendall Square to commit to providing more graduate housing, thereby lessening the substantial housing cost burden graduate students face, and reducing MIT's impact on the housing affordability crisis in our surrounding communities. A 2014 working group appointed by the MIT found that 40% of graduate families who apply to live on campus are denied, and identified at minimum a demand for 500-600 new units for graduate students, a number which has likely only grown since as housing costs have continued to increase in the surrounding area. The MIT Volpe Working Group will very soon be issuing a midterm report to the administration and MITIMCo about what it has heard from the community. Please sign to add your name to this effort calling for making graduate student housing a priority in the Volpe redevelopment process, and add any comments about why this is important to you in the box on the right. https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/mit-support-a-better-world-by-housing-graduate-students