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But if the college has grown over the years and kind of "taken over" the town and the people who have lived there forever - I mean in houses their family has owned for generations - I can see where the residents have some sort of complaint. The point is, the college should have a plan for growth and expansion and work with the town. Too many colleges overadmit and don't have room in the dorms, so even if the students don't WANT to live off campus they have to.
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we have a HUGE problem with this on our campus. because 85% of the campus lives off campus, many of them live within a 3 mile radius of campus. there are many older couples that live in the apartment complexes in the area where the college students live and they complain, but it comes down to: who came first, the chicken or the egg? i mean do you kick out all the college students and then they have no place to go or do you kick out all the older people who have possibly lived in that area long before the college students took over.
i lived in an apartment complex where it was about 95% college students. i could never understand how all these older people would want to live in that area......because that complex was known for it's parties. someone had mentioned that the complex used to be nothing but older couples when it was first built and it was just a few years ago that many college students decided to move out there.
some complexes in our town won't let college students live there. now i dont think this is fair because a complex would NEVER be allowed to say: "now non-students are not allowed here" but it's complicated. what i dont get is why many older couples move into neighborhoods full of college students when renting rates are much higher compared to moving about 5 miles away from campus.....it's amazing how much cheaper it is once you get out of that campus radius