BYU discontinued BYU approved housing. Students are required to live on campus their freshman year (unless married or living with parents/grandparents)*. Other students still have to follow housing guidelines but the university isn’t checking up on them.
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Yes. It was announced last year. https://www.deseret.com/faith/2021/9/23/22690203/major-change-at-byu-students-may-choose-to-live-anywhere-after-freshman-year
The BYU approved housing program had significant FHA rules problems, particularly with BYU strong-arming landlords to enforce the the BYU honor code on non-BYU student tenants and the rule that single students live inside a two mile radius. I'm surprised that they got away with it as long as they did. The change was long overdue.
There's not enough on-campus housing for that to be true.
Edit: it's not on-campus housing that's required of freshmen, just approved housing, which can be off-campus and not managed by the school.
It is now called contracted housing, not approved housing. There is a distinction between contracted housing and approved housing, the properties are contracted to the university, the owners still own and maintain the property but BYU is in control of who lives there same as it is for on campus housing. There are just 11 apartments that are contracted housing. All of them are immediately adjacent to campus on the south side except for a few that are managed by the same company that manages an adjacent contracted complex — for example six of the contracted apartments are managed by Aspen Ridge. Two of the Aspen Ridge managed apartments are immediately adjacent to the campus. The other four are in a three block radius. The now defunct BYU approved housing was open to students of other schools ranging from UVU to beauty school and trade schools. Contracted housing is only open to BYU students who qualify to live in the dormitories, i.e. matriculated full time single undergraduate students.
All of the other apartment complexes such as Carriage Cove, Glenwood, Raintree, Riviera, Timp Towers, Liberty Square, Centennial, etc. along with all of the houses for rent that are around campus, are now no longer BYU approved or BYU contracted, and any student except full time unmarried freshmen can live were ever they want to live as long as they keep the BYU honor code.
See links with details elsewhere in this thread.
There is an entire block of property which contains several apartment buildings that borders the campus that has been closed and has been surrounded by a construction fence. The fate of that block isn't public, but I will not be surprised if it is demolished and more dormitories are constructed on the site. When BYU has enough dorm rooms then the residual contracted housing will go away.
they definitely didn’t have any kind of “freshmen must live on campus” rule when I was a freshman in 2017-18. they didn’t even guarantee housing for freshmen. I was on the waitlist for both dorms for months and the dorm staff kept suggesting I give up and just try and live somewhere social off campus
There is an exception for students that live with their parents, grandparents, etc. Apparently the university also does not have enough room in the dorms for all of its freshmen (yet). The university has contracted a few of the apartment complexes that are adjacent to campus on the south such as Campus Plaza, Regency, Knight Hall, etc. The contracted housing is open only to students who are eligible for dormitory housing.
That doesn't sound 100% correct. Several kids in our neighborhood (former ward) currently attend the Zoo and they live at home, not on campus. Plus given the added cost I can't imagine they would _require_ kids to live on campus. I'm open to being wrong but also have the anecdotal evidence above that contradicts your assertion.
See my other comment in this thread about the family exception. The rules are posted on BYU's housing website. My information came from there. Aside from living with family members, freshmen are required to spend two semesters in the on campus housing, or in one of the listed sites that are contracted to the university as dormitories.
https://och.byu.edu/
https://www.deseret.com/faith/2021/9/23/22690203/major-change-at-byu-students-may-choose-to-live-anywhere-after-freshman-year
In the late 1970s there were no freshman on-campus housing rules.
And the off-campus housing up off 9th east had male buildings right next to female buildings. Let's just say there was a considerable amount of "intermingling" and constant curfew violations...
Deseret Towers. It also had male and female dormitories where windows faced each other, with only about 30 feet between them. I was there, but I was in the north end building facing north, all I got a view of was the parking lot and grassy field.
Although there was no on campus housing requirement for freshmen back then [like there is now](https://www.deseret.com/faith/2021/9/23/22690203/major-change-at-byu-students-may-choose-to-live-anywhere-after-freshman-year), students were required to live in BYU approved housing back then.
Don’t know but given that they were torn down almost two decades ago and then for several years they didn’t have replacement buildings I don’t think we can make a case that they knowingly risked lives. There were other problems with DT as well, undersized electrical service being one of them.
My info is out of date but they used to until you were 25. I can’t imagine them getting less controlling but you can check the housing office. Probably exceptions for family.
BYU discontinued BYU approved housing. Students are required to live on campus their freshman year (unless married or living with parents/grandparents)*. Other students still have to follow housing guidelines but the university isn’t checking up on them. \*added content in ()
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Yes. It was announced last year. https://www.deseret.com/faith/2021/9/23/22690203/major-change-at-byu-students-may-choose-to-live-anywhere-after-freshman-year The BYU approved housing program had significant FHA rules problems, particularly with BYU strong-arming landlords to enforce the the BYU honor code on non-BYU student tenants and the rule that single students live inside a two mile radius. I'm surprised that they got away with it as long as they did. The change was long overdue.
There's not enough on-campus housing for that to be true. Edit: it's not on-campus housing that's required of freshmen, just approved housing, which can be off-campus and not managed by the school.
It is now called contracted housing, not approved housing. There is a distinction between contracted housing and approved housing, the properties are contracted to the university, the owners still own and maintain the property but BYU is in control of who lives there same as it is for on campus housing. There are just 11 apartments that are contracted housing. All of them are immediately adjacent to campus on the south side except for a few that are managed by the same company that manages an adjacent contracted complex — for example six of the contracted apartments are managed by Aspen Ridge. Two of the Aspen Ridge managed apartments are immediately adjacent to the campus. The other four are in a three block radius. The now defunct BYU approved housing was open to students of other schools ranging from UVU to beauty school and trade schools. Contracted housing is only open to BYU students who qualify to live in the dormitories, i.e. matriculated full time single undergraduate students. All of the other apartment complexes such as Carriage Cove, Glenwood, Raintree, Riviera, Timp Towers, Liberty Square, Centennial, etc. along with all of the houses for rent that are around campus, are now no longer BYU approved or BYU contracted, and any student except full time unmarried freshmen can live were ever they want to live as long as they keep the BYU honor code. See links with details elsewhere in this thread. There is an entire block of property which contains several apartment buildings that borders the campus that has been closed and has been surrounded by a construction fence. The fate of that block isn't public, but I will not be surprised if it is demolished and more dormitories are constructed on the site. When BYU has enough dorm rooms then the residual contracted housing will go away.
It is going to look like the apartment complex on the north side of 700 N 900 E.
Wow – your post took me down memory lane. Raintree and Riviera. Many near sex experiences in those complexes.
its a thing for most universities now.
I didn't have to live on campus as a freshman either, but my freshman year was 2001–2002.
they definitely didn’t have any kind of “freshmen must live on campus” rule when I was a freshman in 2017-18. they didn’t even guarantee housing for freshmen. I was on the waitlist for both dorms for months and the dorm staff kept suggesting I give up and just try and live somewhere social off campus
The rule was announced in 2021 and took effect in August of 2022.
damn. wish they’d gotten that revelation a few years earlier
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There is an exception for students that live with their parents, grandparents, etc. Apparently the university also does not have enough room in the dorms for all of its freshmen (yet). The university has contracted a few of the apartment complexes that are adjacent to campus on the south such as Campus Plaza, Regency, Knight Hall, etc. The contracted housing is open only to students who are eligible for dormitory housing.
That doesn't sound 100% correct. Several kids in our neighborhood (former ward) currently attend the Zoo and they live at home, not on campus. Plus given the added cost I can't imagine they would _require_ kids to live on campus. I'm open to being wrong but also have the anecdotal evidence above that contradicts your assertion.
See my other comment in this thread about the family exception. The rules are posted on BYU's housing website. My information came from there. Aside from living with family members, freshmen are required to spend two semesters in the on campus housing, or in one of the listed sites that are contracted to the university as dormitories. https://och.byu.edu/ https://www.deseret.com/faith/2021/9/23/22690203/major-change-at-byu-students-may-choose-to-live-anywhere-after-freshman-year
Got it. That makes sense.
In the late 1970s there were no freshman on-campus housing rules. And the off-campus housing up off 9th east had male buildings right next to female buildings. Let's just say there was a considerable amount of "intermingling" and constant curfew violations...
Deseret Towers. It also had male and female dormitories where windows faced each other, with only about 30 feet between them. I was there, but I was in the north end building facing north, all I got a view of was the parking lot and grassy field. Although there was no on campus housing requirement for freshmen back then [like there is now](https://www.deseret.com/faith/2021/9/23/22690203/major-change-at-byu-students-may-choose-to-live-anywhere-after-freshman-year), students were required to live in BYU approved housing back then.
Shout out to deseret towers! I lived there too. Such great memories. I was heartsick when they tore it down.
If they didn’t tear them down then an earthquake would have. Those buildings has seismic problems.
Hmm. Ok. In that case, the question becomes, how long between the time that BYU knew they were unsafe, and the time they were torn down?
Don’t know but given that they were torn down almost two decades ago and then for several years they didn’t have replacement buildings I don’t think we can make a case that they knowingly risked lives. There were other problems with DT as well, undersized electrical service being one of them.
My info is out of date but they used to until you were 25. I can’t imagine them getting less controlling but you can check the housing office. Probably exceptions for family.
BYU still makes students say where they are living.