It is not the biggest part of the Long Range Development Plan to add on-campus housing, but it does accommodate an additional few thousand first-year students to the residence halls.
On Friday, I got a chance to tour the facility at Tercero, one of which along with Segundo and Cuarto will add additional students.
According to the Campus Tomorrow website: “The Plan provides capacity for an additional 700 students in the Tercero neighborhood. The Tercero 4 project will accommodate an additional 500 students. Tercero 5 will accommodate another 200.”
I was wondering what this looked like, and three students were kind enough to allow the university and me to view and photograph their dormitory.
Talking to the students – they are each paying about $950 a month for the triple room, which has less space than probably half my conference room. That does not even include the cost of a meal plan.
—David M. Greenwald reporting
Wow! That is an eye opener. My daughter’s dorm room in Berkeley, shared with one other, was slightly larger and cost significantly less ( although I don’t remember the exact amount) ten years ago.
Cost is a major issue here
@ $950 each, w/o meal plan?
Strong contender for understatement of the year!
@ $2850/mo, 1 Br, a shared bath down the hall, no kitchen, no meal plan…
This is why the “build all the housing on campus” narrative needs to be re thought. Where does all that money go? 2850 a month for what amounts to a studio apartment without a bathroom is ridiculous.