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Berkeley Law’s extraordinary new class of first-year students includes Zachariah Oquenda ’19, a Truman Scholar and former homeless teen. In a new article, Oquenda describes the struggles his family endured living on a campsite in Illinois, explores the rural housing crisis and offers concrete solutions to address the problem.