Student housing

Richard Joseph Spinelli cofounded Sandhills Real Estate, a student housing company in the Bronx, and these eight entries describe the wider industry it belongs to. They cover the difference between towers built for students and ordinary homes rented to them, how new supply is counted, why distance to campus matters so much, and what national surveys say about where undergraduates live. Across the University of California, campus beds covered only about one student in three in 2022, by the count of The New York Times. Most colleges aim to house a quarter to a third of their enrollment, according to Forbes, and The Wall Street Journal has called housing beside busy campuses one of the few bright areas of commercial property.

Entries in Student housing

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  Student Housing as a Property Type

  A rental category set apart by its tenants and its calendar rather than by its bricks.

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  Purpose Built Student Housing

  Suites, individual leases and a leasing office, and why such complexes remain the minority choice.

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  Scattered Site Student Housing

  The houses and small walk ups that quietly hold most of the off campus student population.

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  Student Housing Supply and New Beds

  Counting the new beds each fall, and why older buildings still carry most of the load.

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  Off Campus Housing Demand

  Three forces, weighed one at a time, that send students into the neighborhoods around a school.

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  Distance to Campus in Student Housing

  Leasing results sorted into rings around a campus, nearest ring first.

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  Living On Campus or Off Campus

  Residence hall or rented apartment, compared side by side and year by year.

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  Housing Insecurity in College

  Students without a stable bed, the surveys that count them and the words that decide who is counted.