Academics never think they should have to pay for anything. I remember teaching a computer class to a bunch of them once, back in the dawn of mobile devices, and they were all “too poor” to buy their own and wanted their universities to buy them. They were earning about 5 times what I was earning, many of them had subsidized housing, they had great medical care...but they still felt that somebody else should pay for everything they did.
Including the rent, of course. And if nobody else paid for it, then it was owed to them and theirs by right anyway.
And there was a fellow who was always going on about "equality of outcome" (communism) but he was the first to go on strike when the groundskeepers got a raise and the professors didn't. He actually had the nerve to complain that they were getting almost as much as new professors, and when I asked him, "I thought that was what you wanted," he sputtered that this was DIFFERENT... I hated them.