Housing
Hunt for Housing Begins Early, Causing Stress for Students
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Housing is already going fast in Collegetown, with students signing leases much earlier than in years prior.
collegtown
NGUYEN | The Tale of Cornell’s Broken Housing Market
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How did a humble college town in upstate New York become one of the least affordable zip codes in the United States? To piece together some answers, I turned to a number of local historical and academic sources. What I unearthed was a loose narrative of a small town warping under the weight of student demand.
Columns
DERY | Am I an Adult or Do I Just Live Off-Campus?
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As an underclassmen, I envisioned adulthood at Cornell and off-campus life as one and the same. Well, now living in the heart of collegetown, I feel just as adult now as I did eating RPCC brunch freshman year. There comes a time in every off-campus student’s transition from on-campus living where we must ask ourselves: Am I an adult or do I just live off-campus?
Opinion
DERY | Cornell Should Actively Help House Students Off-Campus
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Cornell needs to pick up the slack and either be more active in assisting students or take a direct role in the search process.
ithaca tenants' union
As Students Struggle to Find Housing, Three ILR Juniors Form New Ithaca Tenants Union
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Three students in the school of Industrial and Labor Relations have created the Ithaca Tenants’ Union to combat imbalanced power dynamics among tenants and landlords.
Opinion
TAARIQ | Cornell’s Misdirected Master Housing Plan
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The number of students who want to live on-campus far exceeds the number that actually live on-campus, according to a housing survey. The current system consists of guaranteed on-campus housing for all incoming first-year students. Following freshman year, students have a variety of on-campus housing options, which include the West Campus House System, program houses and cooperative houses. In order to live on campus, students register online for housing, then receive a randomly designated General Room Selection timeslot. During this timeslot, they select a room and sign a housing contract.
campus life
‘Isolated,’ ‘Vulnerable’ and ‘Nervous’: Transfer Students Express Frustration Over Not Being Able to Live On Campus
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The University explained that it was unable to offer transfer students housing on-campus because the incoming class of transfers was “unusually large,” so there was an “overwhelming demand” for housing.
Off-Campus Housing
Common Council Considers Creating Commission to Address Ithaca Housing Issues
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Mayor Svante Myrick ’09 intends to create a new commission to holistically assess long-standing housing issues in the city, including the lack of enforcement mechanisms, affordable housing and preventing landlords from requiring leases to be signed over a year in advance.
News
Rawlings Announces Plan to Launch Ratings System for Off-Campus Housing
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Interim President Hunter Rawlings is working to ensure improved safety measures for students, off-campus staff and faculty renters living off-campus housing who he says “deserve no less.”