Student leaders remain gathered at Howard University’s Blackburn Center demanding changes to “unlivable” housing conditions. Unlivable conditions span the gamut of mold, roaches, rats, and other strains on living. As students at Howard continue to protest the conditions of housing, numerous amounts of their stories have reached virality within the almost four-week span. Student leaders have organized a staged sit-in at Howard University’s Blackburn Center in hopes that demands are met. Many other protesters have been affected by the poor housing conditions as well. Destiney Cantzlaar, a Senior Political Science major, is a student at Howard University. Affected by the housing crisis, she has found ways to protest while remaining an active student on the campus. “Like many, I wasn’t given housing at all. About a month before school started, they released an emergency housing form, but by then many upperclassmen like myself were tied into expensive leases because Howard stressed...
