[KEZI News. (September 19, 2011)] – It’s that time of the year again, just a week until local universities begin classes. And that means hundreds of students will be schlepping their bags and moving into dorms.
It has been a very busy past few days moving into the dorms on Oregon State University campus. Sunday was the big move-in day, but Monday many were still bringing in the odds and ends to prepare for the first day of school. <more>
[The Gazette Times. (September 19, 2011)] – Ben Dawley brought the necessities with him to his new dorm room at Oregon State University’s Finley Hall residence hall: bed linens, clothes and a computer.
However, “the most important thing” was a box full of Xbox video games, joked his mother Theresa Dawley as she helped unpack Ben’s things from the family’s minivan parked near the hall between Western Boulevard and Washington Avenue. <more>.
[The Gazette Times. (September 18, 2011)] – How tight is the Corvallis rental housing market right now?
Bob Loewen of the Corvallis Housing Division is ready with an illustration: “If I grabbed your necktie and pulled as hard as I could, it still wouldn’t be tight enough.”
The vacancy rate, he adds, is almost too low to measure.
“If I had to hazard a guess, I’d say we’re probably getting down to about 1/10th of 1 percent.” <more>
[The Gazette Times. (September 7, 2011)] – This fall’s freshman class of Oregon State University will be about the same as last year, but if those students haven’t lined up on-campus housing, they’re facing stiff competition for off-campus rentals.
Bob Loewen, the housing program specialist for the city of Corvallis, said the rental vacancy rate is around a half of 1 percent. International students, newly enrolled graduate students and students who moved away during the summer are expected to drive that vacancy rate even lower. <more>
