total_life_forever t1_j9r0uop wrote on February 23, 2023 at 11:07 PM

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

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.)

Avalanchebagel t1_j9uda4o wrote on February 24, 2023 at 4:59 PM

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.