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Domus student living11/14/2022 ![]() I, for one, have worried about whether my room would be above the tenth floor, whether it’d have a large window in the living room to view the Philadelphia cityscape, and whether it’d be within a one mile radius to the closest Starbucks. On the other hand, students at Penn complain about minor details. An official housing survey conducted in 2017 found that at some point since arriving to the university, 10 percent of respondents had experienced homelessness by not having stable or reliable housing, causing them to live in vehicles, short-term rentals, couch surf in other people’s homes, or make other sleeping arrangements. On-campus housing is only guaranteed for about a quarter of undergraduate students, leaving some to resort to forms of homelessness. Compared to Penn’s minimum rate of $10,200 and maximum rate of $14,284, UC Berkeley’s prices range from $13,495 for a single room housing four people up to $20,485 for a one-person single room suite. On several occasions, they’ve lamented over their housing situation - a lack of security, little to no amenities, and high costs, both on and off campus. Unfortunately, at UC Berkeley, a school many of my friends from high school attend, a notorious housing crisis has existed for decades. We have the privilege of not worrying about whether we’ll have housing in future years, as Penn has subsided any possibility of a housing crisis. Students aren’t concerned with finding housing - they’re concerned with deciding on the best choice. Moving into upperclassmen years, students are provided with options of gaining a kitchen, living room, and private bathroom, while others who opt-out of on-campus housing pursue more affordable private housing nearby or luxury housing, such as The Radian and Domus. Such housing is an anomaly at Penn, where every freshman from the start of New Student Orientation has a room, either suite-style or traditional dorm-style. In 2013, one student made a new home in a converted janitor’s closet. In 2008, a female freshman remained in temporary housing 12 weeks into the semester, initially expecting it to last up to four weeks. This form of housing, though only publicized this past summer through Buzzfeed Media, has been in practice at Purdue years before. Last August, new students at Purdue University were reported to be sleeping in segmented, office-like spaces, known as “temporary” or “ auxiliary housing.” Created due to the excess of admitted applicants, a handful of new students spent their first few weeks of college in public arenas that house up to ten students. I haven't had my first kiss, and I'm not ashamedĬoming to Penn made me appreciate Lunar New Year In a specific case, one Cornell student abandoned his apartment, due to a months-long dispute with his landlord, and began sleeping in a library on campus. Moreover, students living off campus are often met with unprecedented difficulties. Those that are affordable lie on the outskirts of campus. With a limited number of on-campus beds, students must rely on off-campus housing, only to be met with excessively high prices. While many Penn students embrace the opportunity to live off campus after freshman year, the situation is not always ideal at Cornell. Thus, the lottery ensues fierce competition and intense anxiety. But students have described it as “ Housing Hell” and the “ Hunger Games” of room selection because preferred housing is never ensured, especially for students with later time slots. Like Penn, upperclassmen at Cornell who wish to live on campus enter a housing lottery where time slots are assigned randomly. Penn’s second-year housing requirement stirred strongly adverse responses, but if it had happened at fellow Ivy League school, Cornell University, there might have been the opposite reaction, where high demand for on-campus housing is met with low supply. ![]()
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