What to know about Katie Porter’s housing situation at UC Irvine
LA TimesRep. Katie Porter, shown at a July news conference in Orange, is on unpaid leave from the UC Irvine law school. Democratic Rep. Katie Porter bought a home in the faculty community in 2011, when she began teaching at UC Irvine’s law school. She should have given up this taxpayer-subsidized housing benefit four years ago when she was elected.” Porter’s campaign responded that she remains an unpaid employee of the university and is abiding by its rules about who can live in faculty housing. “Like other UCI faculty members who have taken sabbaticals, fellowships and visiting professorships, Rep. Porter has applied for and been granted unpaid leave, pursuant to university policy.” Here’s what voters need to know about Porter’s housing situation. “Per long-standing university policy, all faculty on approved unpaid leaves for sabbaticals, fellowships and visiting professorships, as Rep. Porter is, as well as professors with emeritus status, may remain in their University Hills housing,” Wong said.