8 Reasons UCD Is The Best Place for New Student Housing

1) Affordability

UCD has the ability to set the cost of its housing.

UCD has a better ability to offer School Year only leases because it can fill the bedrooms with UCD summer camp and summer school participants in the summer thus saving students 3 months of rent every year.

UCD can include housing as part of its financial aid.

UCD already owns the land.

2) Guaranteed Housing

Currently UCD only guarantees housing for 1^st year students while most other UC’s Guranteefor 2 years. Some schools gurantee housing for all students. By building more housing on campus UCD can gurantee more housing for its students.

3) Proximity

There is mostly no place in Davis closer to campus than housing could be offered on campus. Students living on campus tend to be more engaged in on campus activities and it is just plain easier to get to class.

4) Fewer Cars

On campus housing keeps car trips to a minimum. The campus also has a better ability to limit the parking availability, helping discourage students from bringing cars to Davis in the first place.

5) Timing and Control

UCD controls when and by how many its student population increases. That gives UCD the best ability to plan ahead and build the housing it will need as it plans on increasing student population.

6) Design

By building student only housing on campus, UCD can tailor the designs of new housing to meet student wants and needs. It can even provide several models they can include Frats, Co-ops, trailer parks, High rise dorms or apartments. UCD can optimize housing design to best meet student needs. It can even design buildings that are multifunction with class rooms and housing in the same building.

7) Environment

By focusing student populations on campus not only does it reduce car and bus trips, but the housing can be specifically designed to offer the most environmentally efficient use for how students use their housing.

8) Student Services

By concentrating student housing on campus, it allows student oriented services to be concentrated where the students are.