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Second Annual College Town Renter Satisfaction Rankings Rate Renter Satisfaction Based on Ratings by Current Apartment Renters LOS ANGELES, CA--(Marketwire - May 26, 2011) - With college graduation season in full swing, ApartmentRatings.com (www.apartmentratings.com), the leading website for user reviews of apartments around the United States, today released its annual rankings of renter satisfaction for the 100 largest college towns and college cities in the country. Topping this year's list is Berkeley, Calif., home to the University of California-Berkeley, the oldest university in California's University of California system. The university's 35,000 students enjoy a picturesque, small-town feel in the city of about 100,000. Though housing costs can be higher than many other college towns, Berkeley offers numerous public transit options and is extremely pedestrian and bicycle friendly -- an ideal situation for college students . Berkeley takes the top spot from D...

By JAKE SHORE of WFUV The Norwood News, in partnership with WFUV and BronxNet TV, brings you a four-part series on development projects happening across the Bronx and its impact on community residents. Luxury Student Housing Rises in Bronx’s Little Italy" width="696" height="522" />CONSTRUCTION SITE FOR future luxury unit marketed for students on Hoffman Street in Belmont, a few blocks from Fordham University . Photo by Jacob Shore For Fordham University students, living off campus is a respite from on- campus housing prices and its rules. It’s worked for Brendan Batcheller, a senior at Fordham’s Gabelli School of Business. The public accounting major said living off campus is markedly cheaper than living within Fordham’s gates. “The cost of a year’s rent for us is less than nine months’ worth of living in a dorm,” Batcheller said in an email. “There is definitely a greater sense of independence living off campus–having to deal with a landlord, p...

Every metropolitan area in the nation is racially segregated, and Los Angeles is no exception. We tolerate residential segregation because we’re convinced that it happened informally — because of personal choices and private discrimination. But what cemented our separate neighborhoods is something most of us have forgotten — government’s unconstitutional and systematic insistence on segregated housing in the mid-20th century, establishing patterns that persist to this day. The 2010 census data show that 60% of Los Angeles’s African Americans live in neighborhoods where few whites are present. The exposure of blacks to whites is as minimal as it is in Chicago or Newark; concentrated African American poverty is as common in L.A. as in New York or Pittsburgh. The New Deal created the nation’s first civilian public housing in the 1930s, segregated not only in the South, but nationwide. In his autobiography, the African American poet Langston Hughes recounted his adolescence in Worl...

August 23, 2017 Crosby Hall, an upperclassmen housing facility located on the Residential Quad. (University photo / J. Adam Fenster) The University is making the option of gender- inclusive housing assignments available to sophomores, juniors and seniors in the College. Upper-class students can now choose to live in a double room or double room in a suite with someone of a different gender or gender expression. The new policy is aimed at fostering a residential experience that is welcoming and supportive of all gender identities, as well as gives students greater flexibility to have a roommate with whom they are most comfortable. The University now joins more than 200 colleges and universities in the U.S. that offer gender- inclusive housing , including Cornell University , Case Western Reserve University , RIT, and SUNY Geneseo. Currently, the Office for Residential Life and Housing Services permits mixed-gender groups to live together in ...

The same day it voted to remove a statue of Robert E. Lee from a park — a move that white supremacists descended on the city to protest — the City Council did something that got much less publicity. It unanimously approved a $ 4 million spending plan to address racial disparities . Over the next five years, about $2.5 million is to be used to redevelop public housing ; $250,000 will go to expanding a park in a black neighborhood; and $20,000 a year will pay for G.E.D. classes for public housing residents . Photo K. Ian Grandison, a University of Virginia professor, with a map of what the rapidly gentrifying city looked like in the 1920s. Credit Matt Eich for The New York Times Activists call it reparations for the destruction of Vinegar Hill and other black neighborhoods here. “I’m hoping that other elected officials and policy makers from across the country can see it’s not enough to just move a damn statue,” said Wes Bellamy, the vice mayor, who proposed the plan. “I think symbol...

Competition for housing is soaring, affordability is weakening and the U.S. housing recovery is grinding to a crawl — and, in large part, the baby boom generation is to blame. No, they're not doing anything immoral or illegal; in fact, they're not doing anything at all, and that is precisely the problem. They're not moving. Baby boomers, the enormous group born between 1946 and 1964, are staying in their big suburban homes far longer than previous generations did at this age, and that is having repercussions down the housing supply line . If baby boomers don 't downsize out of big suburban homes , younger buyers eager to upsize, especially in this improving economy, can't find a home to buy. As the competition from young millennials heats up at the entry level, the logjam at the top of the market only heats that competition and pushes prices ever higher and out of reach. So, why don't boomers move? Some if it is because their empty nests have filled back u...

VALDOSTA, Ga. — For decades, a widely-circulated “brothel law” related to sorority housing at colleges and universities across the nation caused students , staff, and surrounding community residents to believe sororities were unable to have designated houses. Since debunked, the “law” supposedly stated if more than four unrelated women lived in a house together, it was deemed a “brothel” and made illegal. At one Georgia university , however, the persisting fallacy has been put to rest. As it turns out, it is a common belief among some Valdosta students and residents that has no historical standing, according to area officials. “Obviously we had residence halls on college campuses that were only same-sex years ago,” Dr. Vince Miller, Valdosta State University vice president of student affairs, said. The reason for the lack of sorority houses on VSU's campus is far less scandalous, he said. Sororities all operate under the National Panhellenic Conference — the umbre...

Initially founded in 1971 as Tyler State College , the University of Texas at Tyler has undergone many transformations throughout its history. In 1975, the school was renamed Texas Eastern University before joining the University of Texas System four years later. UT Tyler operated as a senior level transfer college for many years - only providing courses for undergraduate juniors and seniors. However, in 1997 the school shifted its academic programs to include freshman and sophomore education. UT Tyler's mission states that it is "committed to providing a setting for free inquiry and expects excellence in teaching, research, artistic performances and professional public service provided by its faculty, staff and students." Those living in student housing or an off campus apartment at UT Tyler have access to the university's distinct academic programs and fields of study. Student may pursue bachelor's, master's, doctoral, pre-med and pre- professional pro...

affordable housing lottery /downtown Jamaica"> affordable housing lottery ." /> Eighty-eight apartments are available at 92-61 165th St. in downtown Jamaica through the city's affordable housing lottery . View Full Caption NHS Development Corporation QUEENS — More than 80 affordable apartments — some starting at $494 a month — are up for grabs in a new building in downtown Jamaica. The newly constructed 14-story building at 92-61 165th St., near Archer Avenue, was developed by Jamaica-based NHS Development Corporation in partnership with The Arker Companies and Slate Property Group .  The building features a number of amenities, including a laundry facility, outdoor courtyard, recreation room and bicycle storage, according to the listing on the  NYC Housing Connect website . Located near York College and Home Depot, the building is within walking distance of the Jamaica Center subway station and will also include retail space on the ground floor, according to t...

This article is brought to you by CORT Furniture Rental . We take the hassle out of furnishing your new place so you can do more important things like read this article. Learn more about why furniture rental is the best way to get a great looking apartment. One of the most exciting things about going to college is finally having your own space to decorate. It’s fun to dream about what your future apartment will look like. However, it can be difficult to make that dream a reality when you are on a tight, college student budget and have to deal with all the other expenses that come with moving. Here are some ways to decorate your apartment on a college student budget . Image via isorepublic.com Rent your furniture, don’t buy it Furniture rental is a great way to save money while decorating your college apartment. There are multiple companies that will allow you to rent furniture for a low price. This a good option especially if you are planning to move back to your hometown after colleg...

Roughly 220 children in lower-income families in Bloomington qualify for but do not have access to affordable pre- kindergarten education . In an effort to change this, Alex Crowley, director of the city’s Economic and Sustainable Development Department , said a state-sponsored initiative, On My Way Pre-K pilot program, which provides funding to programs serving 4-year-olds from families with household incomes at or below 127 percent of the federal poverty level , is coming to Monroe County next year, and it is estimated it can help about 50 children. That begs the question: What can the city and others do to make sure no children who are eligible for pre-kindergarten are left out? As part of that answer, the city is proposing investing $100,000 to support quality child care for lower-income families. “Every dollar initially invested in early education programs for children from low-income families is estimated to generate $4 to $11 in economic benefits over a child’s lifetime,” May...

Ustler Development   and a joint venture partner will pay the city of Orlando more than $5.475 million for a 1.6-acre parcel in Creative Village  to develop market rate apartments with ground-floor retail, which will be the fourth or fifth building to rise in the downtown college campus after it opens in August 2019.  A Parcel M/ Lot 3 land contract will go before City Council on Monday for master developer  Creative Village Development, LLC , which Ustler is a lead figure in, to exercise its purchase option to acquire and develop parcels . It did this earlier in the summer with a JV partner on Parcel J, planned for a 15- story student housing tower . The 1.6-acre Parcel M lies at the southwest corner of Amelia Street and Terry Avenue, directly north of the student housing tower and west of the planned central park area . Ustler's JV partner on Parcel M is solidified but has not been publicly announced, said Craig Ustler, president of Ustler Development .  student housing tow...

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