Jan Burton, in your opinion piece “Home prices way, way up” did you conveniently leave out the 800-pound gorilla for some reason? Perhaps an agenda favoring growth?

Just over 70 percent of CU undergraduate students live off campus; a number close to 20,000 individuals or about one-fifth the population demand on housing. Even a larger percentage of the demand when the (approximately) 15,000 children that live with their parents in Boulder are not considered as part of the demand on separate housing. There are also graduate students as well as commuter students but they come close to balancing out each other in numbers.

In a capitalist system of supply and demand controlling price, removing 20 percent of the demand will drive down the price. The university is the solution to the problem: by either providing more student housing or reducing the number of students. A solution completely out of the control of those that want to profit from increased housing in the private sector. Increased housing which most in Boulder do not want judging from the ballot box for the last several decades.

Alfred Schock