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A Constrained Choice Model for Student Housing

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  • Robert H. Crandall

    (School of Business, Queen's University)

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Traditionally, a university will formulate its policies for student housing on a short-run basis, adjusting its plans for residence hall and other on-campus housing from time to time to meet expected crises in the next few years ahead. In addition, university policy making in this field has tended to center around on-campus housing, neglecting the often substantial role played--or capable of being played--by the private market. In this paper, the author proposes that a university can usefully formulate a long range policy for student housing by (1) including in its definition of the housing system all the facilities that are used for housing students, whether on or off-campus and (2) examining the trade-offs available through the use of a formal analytical model. It is proposed that a linear program provides a useful framework for examining the issues in such an expanded housing system, and an application of this proposed approach is illustrated for a campus of the University of California.

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  • Robert H. Crandall, 1969. "A Constrained Choice Model for Student Housing," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 16(2), pages 112-120, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:inm:ormnsc:v:16:y:1969:i:2:p:b112-b120
    DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.16.2.B112
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