UCLA Housing is discontinuing 10-person university apartments for the 2026-27 academic year.
UCLA released its housing application Jan. 27, which included options with a maximum of eight people in one university apartment, instead of 10 as was offered in the 2025-26 year. Housing did not announce that it would not offer 10-person apartments prior to the application release.
UCLA Housing confirmed the change in an emailed statement, adding that it evaluates housing demand each year and adjusts units to maximize available space.
“Last year, occupancy in select units temporarily increased to accommodate exceptionally high demand,” UCLA Housing said in the statement. “Based on current projections and available inventory, the occupancy levels will return to standard levels.”
UCLA Housing also announced Jan. 14 that it would convert Weyburn Terrace into undergraduate housing over the next three years. It added in the email that three buildings in the complex – including Aloe, Magnolia and Sycamore – will be converted later this year, giving undergraduate students more housing options.
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Darryl Cortez, a third-year business economics student, said he opted to live in a four-bedroom 10-person apartment in Gayley Heights because it was cost-effective for him. Ten-person apartments cost about $10,000 per person for the full academic year, according to UCLA Housing’s website.
“It’s good (UCLA Housing’s decision) because it’s just a lot of bodies in one apartment,” Cortez said. “There’s no privacy.”
Cortez said his current apartment is often crowded and has few amenities, including one stove oven, one microwave and one fridge to share with nine other people. The space easily becomes constricted, he added.
“It only takes three people not to wash the same day for it (the sink) to get full, especially if you start including pots and pans,” Cortez said.
Eufemia Morelos, who lives in a four-person apartment, said she believes UCLA Housing’s communications about available housing options have not been clear and could cause frustration among some students.
Morelos, a fourth-year psychobiology student, said the housing application was very competitive, even with the 10-person apartment offerings. She added that she believes an apartment with more than six people is too much for a shared space.
“Six is understandable, as long as the areas are accommodated for, but eight is reaching, and 10 is way too much,” she said.
Navigating nine other people’s personalities in a shared living space is a challenge, Cortez said, especially because of the confined space. He said he believes the 10-person apartment configuration could work if rooms were all doubles but added that triples create limited space.
The 10-person apartments offered in the 2025-26 academic year included a combination of triples and doubles.
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However, Morelos also said she is grateful for UCLA’s four-year housing guarantee, as students at other universities often struggle to secure housing after their first year. UCLA is the only UC school that guarantees all undergraduate students receive on-campus housing for four years.
Morelos said she has heard of some students choosing to live on the Hill rather than in apartments with more than six or eight people. Housing options on the Hill do not accommodate more than six people in a shared living space.
Soschy Rodriguez, who lives in a four-bedroom eight-person apartment, added, however, that some people might want to live with nine others – and therefore, UCLA should have communicated about the lack of the 10-person apartment option.
“I do believe that UCLA should have probably announced it because it was very much widespread last year,” Rodriguez said. “So if they’re changing it, they should at least announce why they’re changing it for reasons, and I think that should be clarified via the emails.”
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