Okay so I believe that refers to the Affiliated Housing. UVM reflexively refers its students to Affiliate Housing. We mistakenly believed that UVM owned that housing and we’d get accepted there and no issue. We were wrong. Affiliated Housing is owned by some who-knows developer and it’s bloody expensive. It’s higher priced than NYC. So that $830 was a BED in a shared room so the total cost of a shared room was $1660. And that was the CHEAPEST. Here’s the other kicker. Just because you’re enrolled and paid your tuition at UVM, they don’t control who gets accepted into Affiliate Housing. They might or probably get a kick back. The anonymous machine that you apply to, the random computer that takes your “application” kicks you out or accepts you. Shocked we were! So if you don’t get on-campus housing, you must go into either Affiliated Housing or the housing market. The housing market on normal years is tight and expensive. I also contacted the Federal Government because there’s NO WAY that UVM is reporting – or able to report – accurate figures for undergraduates BECAUSE THEY DON’T MONITOR THE MARKET. So the figures for undergraduate housing totals $12800. It’s possible to stay in that budget if you’re in the cheapest affiliate housing. The problem is that there are precious few rooms that are $830. The next level was $1050 and the level after that was $1500. That was affiliated housing IF YOU GET IN. You can’t get in unless you have Junior or Senior status. So then you have to face the Burlington housing market. It’s ruthless. No one or few people return your emails. I bid $100 over the asking price today and was rejected. So the people rising through Burlington’s system get the cheaper places and the others get stuck with heinous prices. We were rejected from the Affiliated housing because UVM figured the credits as a transfer as NOT QUITE junior status, but also didn’t inform us of the hosing implications until after we were rejected. We reapplied and then no affiliated housing regardless of the prices. The Vermont Digger has an article bout Pell Grant people struggling to find housing in Burlington. It’s a mess.
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