Last month ACUHO-I (the Association of College and University Housing Officers - International) released the results of a survey of its members regarding the economic impact the recession and funding changes have had on housing operations and planning. By the large the indicators look better than a year ago, but not as good as two years ago. This is a well-done survey and the results will be useful and interesting to planner, both for planning purposes and for their own benchmarking.

The questions respondents answered related to travel freezes, hiring freezes, salary increases, making departmental funds available to other entities, construction and renovation, planned capital purchases, and demand for on-campus housing within the next three years.

Of particular interest to physical planners, the number of respondents who anticipated restrictions on planned capital purchases, decreased in the past two years from 55% to 31% in this latest survey.

Read the executive summary of the ACUHO-I Economic Impact survey.

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