Cornell’s commitment to tackle the lack of student housing now comes with a concrete vision. The project, which is part of Vice President for Student and Campus Life Ryan Lombardi’s multi-year Housing Master Plan, will guarantee on-campus housing to all freshmen, sophomores and transfer students. At the Joint Annual Meeting and State of the University Address on Friday, Cornell Board of Trustees Chairman Robert Harrison ’76 acknowledged that the motivations behind this plan were the problems of a housing shortage on-campus and “poor housing conditions” off-campus. Cornell has the capacity to house less than half of its undergraduates and just 10 percent of its graduate and professional students, according to the Housing Master Plan Overview. For off-campus options, students are faced with “upward pressure on rents in Collegetown without a corresponding increase in the quality of housing,” according to the Housing Master Plan.

Source: Daily Sun October 24, 2017 05:03 UTC