How do you feel about identity based housing?

It's definitely necessary. There's something really grounding for me about living in a place where my body is not the exception and therefore isn't thought of as an object. I'm glad that Hampshire limits identity-based housing to marginalized races, sexualities, and genders, and denies identity-based requests for other types of spaces, such as "vegan-friendly". Having a queer housing option for me is legitimizing to my identity and makes me feel safer at Hampshire than I would at other schools. I'm white, but I feel like it's the same idea for identity-based housing for POC or international students, a space not to feel like "the other.