David Lont has found his new apartment at Third and A streets a saving grace. "Everything I need is here and it’s just a few steps away from campus," said Lont, a visiting scholar in the Graduate School of Management. He is in town for 10 weeks from New Zealand on a teaching and research project. Lont did not suffer the usual headaches of finding Davis housing for a short stay. He took advantage of UC Davis’ visiting scholar apartments at 207 Third Street, which opened in July 2002. Two units – a one-bedroom and two-bedroom – are available for stays as short as a week or as long as four weeks. Lont found the visiting scholar apartments through the Real Estate Services Unit in the Office of Resource Management and Planning. While the apartments are geared toward short-term stays, extended stay opportunities exist. Judy Sakaki, the new vice chancellor for student affairs, stayed for four months in one of the apartments after moving here from Fresno. At the visiting scholar apartments, the furnished one bedroom unit costs $340 a week and the furnished two bedroom, $375 a week. Rental preference is given to visiting scholars who come to campus for a short-term stay and have a university sponsor. Other university employees arriving on campus may apply if they have a sponsor and a unit is available. "We’re exploring different ways to provide the quality housing our visiting faculty seek," said John Yates, special project director in the Office of Resource Management and Planning. "We want to keep these units close to campus and affordable." The visiting scholar apartments have kitchens, microwaves, housekeeping services, telephones, cable TV, laundry access and Internet hook-ups. The complex housing the apartments includes 11,000-square feet of commercial and residential space. Other tenants include UC Davis’ offices for summer session, scholarships, mediation services, temporary employment, as well as two private restaurants. The Third and A site was remodeled in 1984 and bought by UC Davis in 1987. The university also has another unit for short-term faculty housing at the Colleges at LaRue. The campus’s Aggie Village neighborhood is an example of the long-term housing available to faculty and staff members. Beyond visiting scholars and short-term stays, Davis’ skyrocketing housing costs are hurting the university’s ability to recruit faculty. Elizabeth Langland, dean of the division of Humanities Arts and Cultural Studies in the College of Letters and Science, said housing is too often an issue in faculty recruitments. "Faculty members contemplating a move to UC Davis have serious reservations about their ability to find appropriate, affordable housing, and those who turn down an offer frequently cite the cost of housing as a major, contributing reason. Senior faculty are concerned about sacrificing size and quality relative to what they currently have in other regions of the United States, and junior faculty are uncertain that they will ever be able to buy a home in Davis," she said. Langland added that any measures that the university can adopt to enable new faculty to ease into a tight and expensive housing market will be "enormously beneficial." John Meyer, vice chancellor for resource management and planning, said, "When a professor from Ames, Iowa, contemplates selling her house for $170,000 to move to Davis, she might think twice in light of the current conditions. We’re improving our services in this area because we’ve lost excellent candidates due to high housing prices and a lack of availability." The campus is entering the final year of a three-year effort to update its Long Range Development Plan. The LRDP is the campus land-use plan for accommodating many new students, faculty and staff members and facilities in the coming years. "We are working to create additional opportunities for employee short-term stays and long-term housing," Meyer said. For more information, contact Dixie Dursteler, conference and events services, at 752-2704 or dldursteler@ucdavis.edu. Details also are available at www.ormp.ucdavis. edu/realestate/thirdastreet.htm. David Lont has found his new apartment at Third and A streets a saving grace. "Everything I need is here and it’s just a few steps away from campus," said Lont, a visiting scholar in the Graduate School of Management. He is in town for 10 weeks from New Zealand on a teaching and research project. Lont did not suffer the usual headaches of finding Davis housing for a short stay. He took advantage of UC Davis’ visiting scholar apartments at 207 Third Street, which opened in July 2002. Two units – a one-bedroom and two-bedroom – are available for stays as short as a week or as long as four weeks. Lont found the visiting scholar apartments through the Real Estate Services Unit in the Office of Resource Management and Planning. While the apartments are geared toward short-term stays, extended stay opportunities exist. Judy Sakaki, the new vice chancellor for student affairs, stayed for four months in one of the apartments after moving here from Fresno. At the visiting scholar apartments, the furnished one bedroom unit costs $340 a week and the furnished two bedroom, $375 a week. Rental preference is given to visiting scholars who come to campus for a short-term stay and have a university sponsor. Other university employees arriving on campus may apply if they have a sponsor and a unit is available. "We’re exploring different ways to provide the quality housing our visiting faculty seek," said John Yates, special project director in the Office of Resource Management and Planning. "We want to keep these units close to campus and affordable." The visiting scholar apartments have kitchens, microwaves, housekeeping services, telephones, cable TV, laundry access and Internet hook-ups. The complex housing the apartments includes 11,000-square feet of commercial and residential space. Other tenants include UC Davis’ offices for summer session, scholarships, mediation services, temporary employment, as well as two private restaurants. The Third and A site was remodeled in 1984 and bought by UC Davis in 1987. The university also has another unit for short-term faculty housing at the Colleges at LaRue. The campus’s Aggie Village neighborhood is an example of the long-term housing available to faculty and staff members. Beyond visiting scholars and short-term stays, Davis’ skyrocketing housing costs are hurting the university’s ability to recruit faculty. Elizabeth Langland, dean of the division of Humanities Arts and Cultural Studies in the College of Letters and Science, said housing is too often an issue in faculty recruitments. "Faculty members contemplating a move to UC Davis have serious reservations about their ability to find appropriate, affordable housing, and those who turn down an offer frequently cite the cost of housing as a major, contributing reason. Senior faculty are concerned about sacrificing size and quality relative to what they currently have in other regions of the United States, and junior faculty are uncertain that they will ever be able to buy a home in Davis," she said. Langland added that any measures that the university can adopt to enable new faculty to ease into a tight and expensive housing market will be "enormously beneficial." John Meyer, vice chancellor for resource management and planning, said, "When a professor from Ames, Iowa, contemplates selling her house for $170,000 to move to Davis, she might think twice in light of the current conditions. We’re improving our services in this area because we’ve lost excellent candidates due to high housing prices and a lack of availability." The campus is entering the final year of a three-year effort to update its Long Range Development Plan. The LRDP is the campus land-use plan for accommodating many new students, faculty and staff members and facilities in the coming years. "We are working to create additional opportunities for employee short-term stays and long-term housing," Meyer said. For more information, contact Dixie Dursteler, conference and events services, at 752-2704 or dldursteler@ucdavis.edu. Details also are available at www.ormp.ucdavis. edu/realestate/thirdastreet.htm.