treehouse

A modest proposal for student housing

By: Cazzy Lewchuk, Beedie Business Professor As an economist, my primary goal is to make money and absorb surplus value. As a concerned professor who understands students need places indoors to sleep (they are humans after all), I’m all about providing affordable housing. That’s why I’m excited to announce a policy brief on my plan to fix the housing crisis — let students sleep in treehouses! We’ve already got existing treehouses on campus to model. Built in the 1970s, these treehouses were spaces for hippie professors to sleep in the woods because they loved their jobs so much. Times have…

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