housing

Despite receiving millions in funding from Columbia, the West Harlem Development Corporation continues to face difficulties in creating and preserving affordable housing in the area, largely due to a lack of vacant land in District 9, according to the organization’s second three-year strategic plan.

Six nights a week, two or three Columbia student volunteers walk down Broadway wearing red North Face backpacks filled with sandwiches, socks, toiletries, and feminine hygiene products. They share these items in an effort to create and sustain relationships with members of their community who are experiencing homelessness.

You’ve landed your dream internship, and are now counting down the days until sweet, sweet summer. There’s only one problem: You don’t know where you’re going to live. While getting a roof over your head for the summer can certainly be stressful here in New York City, you do have an abundance of options.

Thursday marked the end of in-person housing selection for all groups of rising seniors and rising juniors. For the remaining rising juniors and all rising sophomores, the options include—but are not limited to—600 W. 113th (Nussbaum), McBain Hall, Broadway Hall, Schapiro Hall, and Wien Hall, as well as some remaining suites in Ruggles Hall and Carlton Arms.

Listen up, rising juniors! Today marked Day Two of Columbia’s in-person housing selection, with all rising seniors and some mixed groups having chosen their homes for the next year.

Housing selection for Columbia College and SEAS students officially began yesterday! Today marked the first day of in-person housing selection and the majority of seniors have already chosen their dorms for next year, mostly opting for East Campus, Hogan, Watt and Woodbridge. If you want to stay updated throughout the day, check out Shaft Live as well as the liveblog.

Happy first day of in person housing selection for Columbia! Stay updated via Shaft Live , and get the inside scoop from John Jay Lounge with the Shaft liveblog!

Barnard’s 110th Street dormitory will no longer have studio single rooms or several double and triple rooms in the housing lottery, likely changing housing configurations for the upcoming school year, Barnard Residential Life and Housing announced in an email sent to students on Friday.

Finally. After three years of housing wins and woes, you’ve made it to the pinnacle of Columbia Housing Room Selection: 30 glorious, hard-earned points of selection priority. Whether you’ve had your heart set on that one East Campus townhouse you stepped foot in during September of first year or have been patiently awaiting a blissful one-bedroom in Watt Hall, it’s good to reacquaint yourself with your options before heading into the final Room Selection of your college years.