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Metro

Provo housing gap leads to 2-week homeless period

Elsa Bray
By Elsa Bray
August 15, 2024 10:00 AM
As the summer term concludes and the fall semester approaches, BYU students face the annual challenge known as "homeless week."
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Campus News

BYU housing policy changes provide more options for students

By Annika Ohran
May 19, 2023 12:00 AM
Since implementation in Fall Semester of 2022, changes to the BYU Student Housing Policy have provided more options for a majority of undergraduate students, while freshmen and transfer students are still required to live in BYU-contracted housing.
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Campus

Can landlords require tenants to sign a COVID-19 liability waiver?

By Sydnee Gonzalez
September 08, 2020 12:00 AM
Both renters and landlords have been hit hard by COVID-19, but where do one group's rights end and the other's begin?
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Local

Changes coming to BYU's Off-Campus Housing Office?

By Karina Andrew
July 03, 2020 12:00 AM
Representatives from the BYU Off-Campus Housing Office met with students July 2 to hear their concerns about housing and discuss how to better meet their needs.
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Campus

BYU administrators to hear students' housing concerns

By Karina Andrew
June 29, 2020 12:00 AM
A group of BYU students has written a letter to President Kevin J Worthen and Academic Vice President C. Shane Reese detailing reforms they would like made to BYU's Off-Campus Housing Office and the off-campus housing contract.
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Campus

Tenants, managers question how BYU's hybrid Fall Semester will affect off-campus housing

By Karina Andrew
June 25, 2020 12:00 AM
Uncertainty about off-campus housing remains as students and rental managers respond to BYU’s announcement about Fall Semester.
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Campus

Students, landlords struggle over contract cancellations

By Karina Andrew
June 01, 2020 12:00 AM
BYU student Annie Cutler was hit by a car and broke her leg on Feb. 13. She relied on her roommates to take care of her while she healed from her injuries, but when COVID-19 hit, Cutler’s roommates-turned-caretakers all moved out.
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Campus

Students face difficult fall housing decision as contract cancellation deadline approaches

By Karina Andrew
May 15, 2020 12:00 AM
Leer en español: Estudiantes de BYU enfrentan difícil decisión de viviendas para el otoño
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Campus

BYU says decision about fall semester won't be made until July

By Kenzie Holbrook
May 14, 2020 12:00 AM
BYU announced it may not have a final decision about whether or not remote learning will continue through Fall semester until July.
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Readers' Forum

Readers' Forum: 4/23/19

By Josh Carter
April 23, 2019 12:00 AM
Eating in the HBLL
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Local

University Park apartments lose BYU housing contract

By Sam Bigelow
December 11, 2018 12:00 AM
Paper signs have been attached to University Park Apartment's sign to unofficially reflect the complex's recent loss of their BYU off-campus housing contract. (Jacob Burgoyne)
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Local

Students share their housing horror stories

By Kaleena Mckell
August 22, 2017 12:00 AM
Editor's note: The Daily Universe received more than 100 comments on a June 5, 2017 Facebook post asking our readers about issues they have had with off-campus housing. Those comments led, in part, to the development of the BYU Off-Campus Housing Series.
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Local

Students find ways to cope during 'homeless week'

By Lauren Hanson
August 15, 2017 12:00 AM
Editor's note: The Daily Universe received more than 100 comments on a June 5, 2017 Facebook post asking our readers about issues they have had with off-campus housing. Those comments led, in part, to the development of the BYU Off-Campus Housing Series.
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Local

Older off-campus student housing may have greater earthquake risk

By Laura Spilsbury
August 14, 2017 12:00 AM
The Wasatch Front is overdue for a large earthquake — one that many campus buildings and student housing complexes might not be able to withstand, according to BYU geology professor Ron Harris.
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Local

BYU students struggle to sell yearlong housing contracts

By Lauren Hanson
August 01, 2017 12:00 AM
Editor’s note: The Daily Universe received more than 100 comments on a June 5, 2017 Facebook post asking our readers about issues they have had with off-campus housing. Those comments led, in part, to the development of the BYU Off-Campus Housing Series.
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Local

Steps to locking-in student safety off-campus

By Alyssa Nielsen
April 05, 2016 12:00 AM
Seven tips from the Off-Campus Housing Office staff for apartment safety. (Jessica Olsen)
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Local

Technicalities and under-reporting obscure BYU campus crime reporting

By Stacie Faulk
March 08, 2016 12:00 AM
Differences in the way police report on- and off-campus crimes makes it unclear how many off-campus crimes involve students. (Jessica Olsen)
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Campus Events

The life of an RA in BYU housing

By Kelsey Snowden
February 05, 2013 12:00 AM
It's summer semester and resident assistants in many Provo apartments finds themselves up to their heads in stress. A loud party has formed in a nearby apartment, residents are calling them every 10 minutes, and a truck has decided to make the grassy quad just outside of the resident assistant’s apartment into a parking lot.
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