Approximately 70 percent of UCR s students opt to live in some form of UCR student housing either residence halls or apartments during their first year, said Andy Plumley, associate director of housing. To make room for them over the next decade UCR will open a new residence hall every two years for the next several years and a campus apartment complex in between those years. This will add 3,600 beds approximately a bed per day for the next ten years to the current residence hall capacity of 1,800. Housing will also add about 2,300 spaces in campus apartments and family housing. The next residence hall is scheduled to open in the year 2002 and will use the same design as Pentland Hills.
Housing is guaranteed for all freshmen who meet the housing deadlines.
UCR also owns apartments in Bannockburn Village and University Plaza. Continuing to meet the growing need for new housing while keeping rents affordable is one of the toughest challenges the university faces, said Plumley. New housing is funded with income generated from the fees students pay for housing.