Catherine Schofield reports on how ASUN is leading the charge in getting accountability from private housing operators.
A Delayed Move In
The Associated Students of the University of Nevada, Reno have created a Special Committee on Housing with the goal of holding privatized student housing in Reno accountable for their promises to residents.
Emma Bergren, 19, is an ASUN Senator for the School of Public Health and also sits on the Special Committee. She said that this committee was spurred by recent events involving Park Place Reno.
When residents signed their lease for Park Place they were told that the building would be ready for move-in this past August. However, everyone was moved into the Circus Circus Sky Tower in downtown, similar to how students were moved there after the Argenta dorm explosion in 2019. Students were kept in the Sky Tower until mid-November when everyone was moved into the finished Park Place building.
“Housing and food should not be a student’s worry,” Bergren said. “Your grades, your school, keeping up with your family, your mental health should be your worry. Living underneath a roof should not be your worry, and I feel like for the past couple years, it has been.”
Read the full story on Medium: New Park Place Housing Near Campus Already Disappoints, Spurring Student Action
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