![]() Yale College Dean of Administrative Affairs John Meeske said he has seen student preference for off-campus housing go through several cycles in his time at Yale. Students who are prepared often put themselves on waiting lists for buildings like the Taft and the Oxford as early as November. ![]() Competition for rooms is highly variable depending on the location of the property, he said. Students looking to live off campus fill out applications for apartments year round, King said, and are placed on various waiting lists. Not all off-campus housing is owned by University Properties, but their holdings include some of the most popular buildings for students, such as Harrison Court, Orleton Court and the Townsend. ![]() The properties are contracted out to two companies - Pro Management Services and Elm Campus Partners - which interact with Yale-affiliated renters. In fact, University Properties owns about 500 apartments and houses around campus, University Properties Manager Kelly King said. Josh Stern ’06, who has lived off campus since his junior year, said the “dirty secret” of off-campus housing is that most of it is owned by Yale. Ogletree and other students living off campus are often subject to a system nearly as complicated as the one governing on-campus housing. For many students, the commotion at 210 Park is just another of the ups and downs of choosing to live off campus at Yale. Ogletree is one of the students - about 12 percent of all undergraduates - who choose to scramble instead for rooms in apartments and houses beyond the stone bounds of Davenport, Branford, Morse, and their ilk. The annual “scramble” is something that afflicts nearly all Yale College students, though for most it usually means no more than surviving nail-biting room draws for suites in the residential colleges. “It’s very frustrating to have to deal with it again when I was expecting to stay put.” “I went through this housing scramble last year,” Ogletree said. All tenants, including Yale students like Ogletree who use 210 Park as off-campus housing, will be denied renewal of their leases for next year. ![]() In an attempt to stem a potential housing shortage in the coming academic year, the Yale College Dean’s Office has agreed to rent the Harrison Court apartments at 210 Park from University Properties as annex space for undergraduates. home until she graduates, received notice that her plans were going to be cut short. Last Wednesday, the Pierson student, who planned to call her apartment at 210 Park St. ![]()
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