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fishythepete t1_j9q5axw wrote

Reply to comment by asteroid_b_612 in City approves 5-story College Hill apartments despite complaints about noisy students by cowperthwaite

Hey moron - there are now 50 fewer rich college kids you’re fighting for housing. You’re welcome.

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total_life_forever t1_j9r0uop wrote

the university has room for 50 more students in their dorms now.

(I know that's simplifying things a bit, but if more student housing is built off campus, who's to say the university doesn't just admit more students and continue to allow off-campus landlords to subsidize their housing issues.)

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Avalanchebagel t1_j9uda4o wrote

The issue currently is that Brown has a 3-year residency requirement, but not enough housing to make that happen. They want only seniors living off campus but have to allow juniors to get out as well. We had a little crisis last year when too many seniors opted to live on campus and they had to give last-minute permission to more juniors to even it out.

But they’re about to finish the second and third of 3 new dorm buildings this fall, hoping to push the number of juniors off-campus down even further. Along with that, they say(probably take this with a grain of salt) that there is no plan to admit more students per year in the foreseeable future.

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asteroid_b_612 t1_j9q5hjo wrote

Why are they prioritizing approving buildings like this when they hem and haw over any affordable housing?

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mrvis t1_j9qec9k wrote

Are you really asking why money talks? In America?

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cowperthwaite OP t1_j9r3c04 wrote

What do you mean prioritizing?

This was a private developer who chose to do market rate.

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Proof-Variation7005 t1_j9tu0ry wrote

This point would be a lot better if you could point to some affordable developments that are being stalled because it isn't getting approved. Problem is, those places don't exist.

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