Esther I. Brown
dynamic, detail-oriented creativeC-VILLE Issue #18.06
Issue #18.06 :: 02/07/2006 – 02/13/2006
MORE ON HOUSING THOSE ’HOOS
At capacity,UVA dorms only hold half of all undergrads
Of the 20,399 students enrolled at UVA for the 2005-06 school year, 13,401 are undergraduates. According to UVA’s Housing Division, the school has a total of 7,071 dormitory beds available for all students, with 6,325 beds available for undergraduates. John Evans, UVA’s director of accommodations, says that those undergraduate beds are currently 95 percent occupied. Last week, UVA’s Board of Visitors voted to raise the cost of a double-occupancy dorm room to an average of $3,639 per student in 2006-07, an increase of $350.
Currently 13,328 Wahoos—7,076 of them undergrads—live off campus. As the debate rages between developers and preservationists and the City and County over how to house these off-campus students, C-VILLE hit the streets to ask students this question: “Given the same location, would you rather live in a new apartment complex or an old house? Why?” Here’s a sample of their responses.
—John Borgmeyer, with additional reporting by Esther Brown
