Additional Resources
MOU
- LRDP MOU
- Davis Apartment Vacancy Rate Continues to Improve (2024)
- LRDP MOU Press Release (2023)
- Meeting Our Housing Commitments (2022)
- LRDP MOU Press Release (2019)
Housing Updates
- 2024-25 Campus Housing Update
- 2023-24 Campus Housing Update
- 2022-23 Joint Housing Report
- 2019-20 Joint Housing Report
- 2018-19 UC Davis Housing Update
Other
Memorandum of Understanding with the City, County and University
In September 2018, the City of Davis, County of Yolo and the University of California, Davis agreed to a memorandum of understanding, or MOU, on a series of shared goals and commitments to improve collaboration and partnership.
Commitment to create more housing options for students
Access to housing is a significant challenge throughout the state of California and critical to supporting the strong sense of community cultivated by our university. To provide future students with easy access to academic resources and multiple options to live on campus, UC Davis is undergoing the most ambitious student housing construction initiative in its history – one that even exceeds the university’s potential enrollment growth.
The terms of the MOU include a commitment to build more housing for students as well as a guarantee to house 100 percent of any new student enrollment growth on campus. In 2024 campus enrollment growth was 2,628. As a result of several large projects, UC Davis has added more than double the amount of beds needed (6,266 beds) to meet this commitment. Find a recap below.
Residential Halls
- Tercero District (open in 2017): The redevelopment of Leach Hall apartments accommodated an additional 500 student with flexible space that can be configured with two or three beds based on demand.
- Cuarto District: Yosemite Hall (open in 2019) and Shasta Hall (open in 2022) were constructed to replace Webster Hall and Emerson Hall and accommodate an additional 440 beds in rooms that allow for two- or three-bed configurations.
Campus Apartments
- The Green at West Village (open in fall 2020 and 2021): This project provides housing for approximately 3,290 students among nine apartment buildings
- Sol at West Village (open in fall 2017): This project provides housing for approximately 550 students.
- Orchard Park Redevelopment Project (open fall 2023): The project provides apartments for approximately 1,486 students, including students with families. Orchard Park will accommodate four times as many students as the development it replaced.
2024 - 2025 Housing Report
Find out more about how the housing landscape has improved since the inception of our MOU with the City of Davis.
Additional MOU Commitments
The MOU also includes the development of joint transportation plan and traffic improvement projects, the elimination of master leases in the City of Davis and the formation of a stronger town-gown partnership through a variety of collaborative activities. Track the progress made meeting the goals set out in the MOU by expanding the boxes below.