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With state budgets tight and demand for a college education at a high point, public universities across the country are increasingly turning to the private sector to build and finance on-campus dormitories.

The Columbia City Council gave approval Monday night to a controversial proposal to rezone the Regency Mobile Home Park to allow for the construction of a 936-bed student apartment complex.
The council decided after nearly three hours of testimony from mobile home residents, University of Missouri students and activists speaking mostly in opposition to the rezoning [...]

The first phase, a $70 million project, will build three housing facilities to accommodate 924 students with two residential facilities on the north side of campus and one on the south side of campus.

TUCSON, Ariz. — Tucson is moving quickly to rezone land near the University of Arizona to allow taller buildings, but owners of some historic bungalows complain they’ll be left in the shadows.
Properties in the area targeted by city planners for student high-rises now are limited to four stories. New rules would allow 14-story buildings with [...]

A law prohibiting more than two unrelated people from living in the same single-family residence has forced three veterans attending Texas State University to abandon their housing arrangement.

New zoning allows residential building but not the usual mix of uses.

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The Thomas Edison Inn — and surrounding property in Port Huron — is getting an upgrade.

Private developers could lease the University of Kentucky’s Haggin Field for 50 years under a request for proposal issued by UK on Wednesday to build a $30 million, 600-bed residence hall.

South Street Capital has proposed building a $50 million student housing complex.

The Sooner Center student housing project is expected to cost $45.5 million to build.