Privatizing University Housing (PDF; 451 KB)
Source: The Reason Foundation
From press release:

Rising enrollment and tight budgets are creating housing shortages at colleges across the country. Many schools are ill-equipped to build new units or renovate aging dormitories and a recent survey finds over half the nation’s universities do not have enough housing.

A new Reason Foundation study demonstrates how colleges can use the military’s highly successful housing privatization model to meet the demands of growing student bodies.
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A 2005 survey of 73 universities found that 16.6 percent of new residence halls will be owned by private developers or foundations and 15.3 percent will be privately managed.

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