—The Daily Collegian Friday, Oct. 20,1978 Managers say no apartment shortage downtown By CLIFF BASSMAN Daily Collegian Staff Writer Although enrollment is at a peak and an excess of students applied for this year’s dormitory space, there seems to be no shortage of off-campus housing for students at University Park. In fact, a quite different situation has been recognized by managers of several State College apartment complexes. Art Campbell, property management director of Heim, Heckendorn and Bruce realtors, said there has been less of a demand for his firm’s units this year than in previous years. “Where we have vacancies now, we had none before,” Campbell said. A similar condition was noticed by Carmen Dabiero, general manger of A.W. & Son Inc., another of State College’s larger realty firms. The influx of tenants never reached the anticipated amount, Dabiero said. Earn Over $ 650 a Month Right Through Your Senior Year. 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Pearl Weiner, general manager for Lions Gate Apartments, said she has noticed an increase in demand for one bedroom and efficiency apartments. Lions Gate has very few vacancies! she said. Weiner said many complexes are faced with vacant units because some owners fail to understand that students live on limited incomes. There is no housing shortage in State LABOR ONLY All part! College, but there is a shortage of af fordable apartments, she said. Campbell said increased apartment sharing could account for the decrease in demand for individual units. "Where there were one or two people renting a one-bedroom apartment before, there are now two or three,” he said. “If one additional roommate is put in one-tenth of the apartments off campus,” Campbell said, “1,000 people can be absorbed.” Phil Grosnick, assistant director of Residential Life programs, said total enrollment has been increasing by a few hundred students each year. Although conclusive figures are not yet prepared, enrollment this term should follow the trend, he said. Demand for dormitory housing also increased this year and 1,200 applicants for dorm contracts were rejected by the University, Grosnick said. [WSIS'>» Mike Leeper, vice president of the Organization for Town Independent Students, said the number of requests for apartment information his group received from students who were denied dorm contracts was twice last year's figure. Grosnick said the increased apart ment sharing and the greater demand for dorm rooms are responses to economic conditions. When increases in the cost of living and schooling itself are compounded by rent hikes, financing an education can become difficult for many students, he said. For this reason, many who wished to trasfer to University Park from a branch campus but were not admitted to the dorms, may have remained at the branch for another term, Grosnick said.' Currently there are about 18,000 students living off-campus, compared to 12,700 in the dorms, Leeper said. t the H HOT STREETS including: Alive Again/NoTell Lover/Gone Long Gone ShowMeTheWay/Little Miss Lovin' "HP® Ralph’s « ecordß Featured October 20-26 $ 4.491ps s 4u99rapes “SOUNDS DELICIOUS 350 East College Avenue University enrollment may be at its peak, but there appears to be no shortage of off-campus housing for students, according to several State College apart ment managers.
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