Greenfield Avenue

Los Angeles, CA 90025

Best deal this close to campus. Apt is 1 mile from campus. You get your own bedroom in a three-bedroom graduate student apartment for only $900 per month plus utilities (or best offer). I received my PhD in political science from UCLA in 2020. Emily is a masters degree student in the UCLA School of Social Welfare. This bedroom is available for either summer sublet (2026) or full academic year (2026-27), your choice. This apartment is 1 mile from campus; five blocks from the free campus shuttle bus stop at Ashton and Midvale; and six blocks from the graduate student gym. The apartment is in a quiet neighborhood, right next to Westwood Park, which has tennis courts, basketball courts, soccer fields, fitness path, and recreation facility with pool and racquetball courts. Previous roommates in apartment give good references. The available move in date is July 1, 2026. I prefer a UCLA graduate student, but I am willing to accept a UCLA undergraduate student. I am also willing to accept a summer sublettor for the summer of 2026, as long as the summer sublettor is a UCLA student or a summer intern from another university or college. [By the way, this is not a scam. There are two reasons why the rent is so low. First, this apartment is covered by the rent control law, which prohibits the landlord from increasing the rent more than 4% per year as long as the same tenant lives in the apartment. I have lived in this apartment for a long time. So the rent on this apartment has only increased 4% a year while the rent on similar apartments nearby has increased by 8% per year. Thus by now my apartment’s rent is much lower than the rent on similar apartments nearby. Second, this is a two-bedroom apartment with a dining room and a living room. We turned the living room into a third bedroom. So the total rent on the apartment is divided by 3 rather than 2, which makes each person’s rent lower than it would be with only two people living here. (The living room turned into a bedroom is a private bedroom. The other two roommates never need to walk thru that bedroom to get in or out of the apartment: we use the back door on the kitchen instead. And we never need to walk thru that room to get to any other room, bathrooms or kitchen in the apartment.)]

It is a three bedroom apartment with one person in each room. I am in room #1. The person in room #2 is a woman named Emily, who is a masters degree student at the UCLA School of Social Welfare. Room #3 is the available room. It is the living room turned into a third bedroom. The person who has that bedroom is the only one who uses that front door (visible in the picture) to get into and out of the apartment. The other two roommates only use the back door on the kitchen to get into and out of the apartment. So the other two roommates never have to go through room #3 to get into or out of the apartment. Thus room #3 is a private bedroom. It is a very large room: 12 feet by 20 feet. It also has a walk-in closet for clothes and storage.

I received my PhD from the UCLA Department of Political Science in 2020. If you want to read my dissertation, or a part of it, you can download a free copy from the University of California electronic dissertation archive. Just google the phrase “Bill Koppel the path of power and the path of law: how europe got from feudal anarchy to peace, prosperity and democracy”. The google search will return a link to my dissertation’s page on a UC website called “escholarship: open access publications from the University of California”.

I also worked at the UCLA Fund as a fundraiser for ten years while earning that degree.

I like music – mostly reggae, deep house and ambient groove. I like walking in the park next to my apartment building and hiking in the Santa Monica mountains. I also like discussing history, politics, economics and philosophy with people who are interested in these topics. I attend a meetings on these topics on the “meetup” platform.

The setup in this apartment has run very well for many years, because I have lived here for a long time and my roommates have always been UCLA graduate students (like I was until 2020). We share the apartment to economize on individual rent costs. But otherwise we live independent lives. For example, we do not share food or meals. Each person does his own food shopping and cooking. We also have a list of “house customs” that we live by here, just to keep the apartment relatively clean, quiet, etc. So it is a good place for a UCLA student to live and do his school work. Many previous roommates in the apartment give excellent references, because they had really good experiences here. For example, one previous roommate lived here for the entire 6 years of his PhD program in mathematics. Previous roommates who were doing 2 year masters degree programs at UCLA always wanted to continue living here for the second year, because they always had excellent experiences in the apartment in the first year.