While the ruling to freeze enrollment at the University of California–Berkeley is under appeal, a bill was introduced on Feb. 22 that would make California public universities’ housing developments exempt from environmental review. Senate Bill 886, introduced by Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) would make University of California, California State University, and California Community College housing development exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act—known as CEQA—an environmental review process that spells out the potential adverse impacts of a proposed development. “Housing is essential to make these universities work for everyone,” Wiener wrote Feb. 22 on Twitter. “Currently, an obscene [percentage] of students are homeless or housing unstable – 10% of CSU students, 16% of UC students & 19% of community college students. This undermines their education.” California has long led the way on the environmental review of projects. CEQA—which measures environmental impacts such as increased traffic, noise, or pollution, to …