Southern Cal housing needs spill over to adjoining neighborhoods

As the University of Southern California attracts a substantially higher number of students from out of the state and nation, more students are moving into areas of Los Angeles around the campus that used to be considered too distant or too unsafe, and developers are eagerly courting renters willing to pay for the convenience of skateboarding to chemistry class. The results have included complicated demographic shifts, zoning disputes and debates about how to balance the needs of USC's burgeoning off-campus residential population with those of longtime residents, including middle-class homeowners and low-income renters.
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