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On this page, you will read about policy changes as well as upcoming construction and renovation projects that affect the application process. 

R&DE Renovation Projects in Graduate Student Residences 

The goal of R&DE’s Maintenance Operations & Capital Projects team is to ensure student comfort and safety in their campus homes. They provide routine maintenance and system upgrades year-round, with minimal disruption to students. However, some projects are so extensive that they can only be completed in unoccupied apartments. In these cases, students are relocated to other apartments while the renovations take place. R&DE will provide more detailed information about the project once year before the scheduled start date. There is a now a website that lists major renovation projects through the 2027-2028 academic year. Please note that renovation schedules do change. This chart will be updated quarterly to reflect plans at that time.

Renovation in the EV High-Rise Apartments

Blackwelder was closed for major renovation from the end of the summer 2022 through summer 2023. It will reopen in autumn of 2023. Quillen will close for renovation in autumn 2023 through summer of 2024. Students currently living in Quillen will be able to renew their full-year junior two bedroom, one bath contracts for 2023-24, if otherwise eligible, and will move to the junior two-bedroom, one bath options in Blackwelder when the renovations start in the autumn. Students who are not eligible to renew their contract for the 2023-24 year and will need to apply through the Lottery. 

Renovation in the EV Low-Rise Apartments

We started renovations in the Escondido Village low-rise apartments in autumn 2021. These apartments will be completely renovated, including all new bathrooms and kitchens, as well as upgrading the plumbing and electrical systems, replacing the heating radiators in the second-floor bedrooms, replacing insulation in the attic and walls, and evaluating if the roofs need replacement. The buildings will also be painted. We will take three buildings off-line at a time each quarter for these renovations.

The students in Escondido Village low-rise apartment buildings 71, 72, and 73 will need to relocate by the beginning of summer 2023. They can still renew the same type of housing, but will need to relocate to a different apartment at the end of spring quarter. Students with children will relocate to the newly renovated apartments in buildings 75, 76, and 77 and single students will relocate to vacancies in single graduate housing. 

The students in Escondido Village low-rise apartment buildings 68, 69, and 70 will need to relocate by the beginning of autumn 2023. They can still renew the same type of housing, but will need to relocate to a different apartment at the end of summer quarter. Students with children will relocate to the newly renovated apartments in buildings 71, 72, and 73 and single students will relocate to vacancies in single graduate housing. 

The students in Escondido Village low-rise apartment buildings 65, 66, and 67 will need to relocate by the beginning of winter 2024. Students with children will relocate to the newly renovated apartments in buildings 68, 69, and 70 and single students will have priority in the winter assignments to relocate to vacancies in single graduate housing. 

The students in Escondido Village low-rise apartment buildings 61, 62, and 64 will need to relocate by the beginning of spring 2024. Students with children will relocate to the newly renovated apartments in buildings 65, 66, and 67 and single students will have priority in the spring assignments to relocate to vacancies in single graduate housing.

Off-campus Subsidized Housing

Stanford has been leasing off-campus subsidized apartments in Palo Alto, Menlo Park, and Redwood City to meet the demand from graduate students. These subsidized off-campus apartments will be offered along with the on-campus options in the Lottery application. 

While off-campus housing choices will be available to rank on the 2023-24 Lottery application, assignment to these spaces will be based on the overall applicant demand. Because we do not know the number of spaces we will assign off-campus, students listing these choices should also rank on-campus housing options. It is important to note that students assigned to these off-campus complexes may have to consolidate within a complex or relocate to campus during the academic year if demand for housing changes. Students will not be able to renew for 2024-25.

Students in most off-campus complexes are not able to renew their contracts and must join the Lottery each year. However, students assigned to Oak Creek in 2022-23 are able to renew for the 2023-34 year, if otherwise eligible. We will review if it will be possible for Oak Creek residents to renew for 2024-25 in the spring of 2024.

Students in off-campus housing cannot sublet their apartments.

Students who are applying for the same category of housing and have one year of medium housing priority remaining, will receive a special assignment priority and will therefore be considered early on in the assignment process.

Autumn Assignment Priority for Students Living in Housing

During the Lottery, if a student has a lottery number and priority level strong enough to be assigned in the first round, we assign that student back to their original housing assignment (if desired) before making any other assignments. This is done to reduce the number of student moves within university assigned housing over the summer months. If we don't do that, a large number of current students would be forced to change residences within university housing. As we process subsequent autumn quarter assignment rounds, we continue to allow students to remain in place if their lottery number is strong enough to be assigned in that round. For students who are not in housing or are changing assignments, assignment order is driven by both a students’ Lottery number and their overall priority level, while the location a student is assigned to is driven by their individual housing choices and what spaces are available for assignment. We will continue to do our very best to assign students within this rubric to meet their housing needs.

Non-matriculated Students Apply in the Rolling Assignments

Non-matriculated students are not able to renew their contract and are not likely to be assigned for the autumn term, due to the demand from matriculated students starting in the autumn. As a result, non-matriculated students will not be able to apply in the first and second round of the autumn quarter assignments. They will need to wait until July 6, 2023 to submit an autumn application in the Rolling Assignments. Non-matriculated students may still apply in the first round of the winter, spring and summer quarter assignments. Non-matriculated students who are assigned for winter, spring or summer term will very likely have to move out of student housing by the end of their summer contract. We encourage non-matrics to consider assignment to the Oak Creek Apartments through the Faculty and Staff Housing Office as the contracts available though that office allow for longer contracts.