BERKELEY — UC Berkeley wants students and postdoctoral researchers to take a survey regarding their housing choices.

“The rising cost of housing in the Bay Area, and Berkeley in particular, is creating serious financial challenges for undergraduate students, graduate students, and postdoctoral researchers, while pushing them further and further away from the campus in the search for available and affordable housing,” the university said in a press release.

A Housing Master Plan Task Force Report identified nine possible sites for future student housing, including the Oxford Tract, People’s Park, and several others in Berkeley, as well as one each in Albany and Richmond.

The survey is accessible via Calnet Authentication and should be completed by April 26. Respondents who complete it will be entered in a lottery for one of two $250 gift cards or the Grand Prize of a 9.7-inch, 128 GB iPad.