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Stouffer Place closing limits options
AMELIA ARVESEN
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Stouffer Place Apartments will become a new construction zone in fall 2015, leaving non-traditional and graduate students without a favorable on-campus housing option.
The data behind the 2014-2024 Campus Master Plan determined the apartments cannot be offered at the current affordable rates if the University were to maintain, improve or entirely replace the units. It's considered a "deferred maintenance" area in need of between $10 to 20 million in renovations.
Without the low rent rates that attract non-traditional students, Stouffer Place would become less desirable.
"We learned that for the majority of students with families, their reason for being in Stouffer Place was the
low rent rates," said Diana Robertson, director of Student Housing. "They were pretty clear with me in saying that if the rates were to go up they wouldn't continue living there."
Seyool Oh, a resident for eight years originally from South Korea, was one of those voices who did not want to see rental rates increase.
"It will directly affect non-traditional students, international students and diversity, which KU highly has been emphasizing," Oh said. "I am especially concerned that they are not going to rebuild family housing."
Now that Stouffer Place is set to close in June 2015, he is unsure about where he will move with his family.
To replace Stouffer Place, the Master Plan includes a new apartment complex at 19th and Iowa Streets set for completion in the late spring of 2017. Robertson said the development will be targeted at single upper-classmen
The University will lack housing specifically for graduates and nontraditional students between 2015 and 2017, and doesn't currently have a plan for replacing family housing. Currently, 55 percent of residents are families.
Family housing is an amenity at most Big 12 schools-only Texas Tech University and Texas Christian University do not offer family housing.
Robertson said housing has directed Stouffer Place residents with questions about moving out to websites like Apartments.com for alternative options.
and graduate students.
Gavin Young, assistant director of strategic communications, said the decision to remove Stouffer Place was made after the University considered the long-term use of the land.
The Master Plan indicates that
Stouffer Place has underused important real estate and, therefore, the remaining area between 19th Street and Irving Hill Road will be used for new integrated science buildings.
"I think the housing alternatives that KU will provide in the long-term will be a better alternative overall for both the University and for the students," Young said.
Student Housing is still accepting applications for the 2014-2015 school year, and Robertson said she has received 224 contracts for the 283 apartments available.
Young said the University will discuss plans for the new housing facilities during the summer and fall semesters.
Current resident assistants declined to comment.
— Edited by Kaitlyn Klein
MONTHLY RATE COMPARISON
Stouffer Place Apartments
Rates beginning July 1,2014
Two-bedroom (walk-through): $521
One-bedroom: $491
Two-bedroom: $550
wo-bedroom (renovated): $721
2013-14 rates
Jardine Apartments (K-State)
Three-bedroom (renovated): $913
One-bedroom: $420 (single), $485
(renovated)
Two-bedroom: $495 (single), $555
(renovated), $625 (family)
Three-bedroom (renovated): $725
housing.ku.edu/rates, housing.k-state.edu
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