Durham Rising

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So he thinks the trustee members just freely give our their money? Most billionaires are selfish assholes - that's how they got to be billionaires and leave bodies in their wake.
I dont know what he is talking about with failing to house undergrads - that is just weird. Grad students? Dont really know many grad students at any school who live on campus. Ga Tech has a small grad housing dorm - for like 300 students out of thousands.
Agree on the min. wage - right now it's $18/hr
 
aGDevil2k said:
So he thinks the trustee members just freely give our their money? Most billionaires are selfish assholes - that's how they got to be billionaires and leave bodies in their wake.
I dont know what he is talking about with failing to house undergrads - that is just weird. Grad students? Dont really know many grad students at any school who live on campus. Ga Tech has a small grad housing dorm - for like 300 students out of thousands.
Agree on the min. wage - right now it's $18/hr
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Grad. students at Duke used to live in Central. I assume that's occupied by mostly athletes today. Back in the day grad students had an (understood) reserved section behind the north basket of CIS - 100s showed up for games. What about the space vacated by Frats who decided to retain their rights to groom early?? Quite a few moved off campus.

Yeah, Tim Cook and Adam Silver won't donate big $$ to Duke and Durham unless a building is named after them...they serve in luxury positions. Duke made an effort to integrate into the Durham community over the last 3 decades. I don't know where that is now. TBF, the R&D devastation and ever shrinking Gang of 88 helps no one, including the Durham community.
 
Duke Mu said:
Grad. students at Duke used to live in Central. I assume that's occupied by mostly athletes today. Back in the day grad students had an (understood) reserved section behind the north basket of CIS - 100s showed up for games. What about the space vacated by Frats who decided to retain their rights to groom early?? Quite a few moved off campus.

Yeah, Tim Cook and Adam Silver won't donate big $$ to Duke and Durham unless a building is named after them...they serve in luxury positions. Duke made an effort to integrate into the Durham community over the last 3 decades. I don't know where that is now. TBF, the R&D devastation and ever shrinking Gang of 88 helps no one, including the Durham community.
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Umm Central Campus is gone - has been gone for several years
 
Vast majority of grad students live off campus. Has been that way for quite a while.
Duke requires undergrads to live on campus for 3 years, but there are plenty of loopholes to get around that and live off campus staring junior year. Ever since they took the fraternities off campus there has been a trend for some undergrads (more than in the past) to move off campus. There are also many more off-campus housing options close to campus than there was in the past. Duke still hasn't figured out what they want to do with the old (now vacant) Central Campus, but putting in some campus housing there would probably be a good idea.



What's probably put a squeeze on rent is that Durham has drawn a fair number of companies and young professionals in the last decade. I have seen a lot of new housing pop up over the years, but it's probably not enough to meet the demand.
 
I support the guy's goals but rents tripling in five years? Come on.

Duke is a better partner for Durham than they have to be. They could avoid property taxes on any academic buildings including many of their medical facilities. They choose to lease a lot of buildings instead which means they indirectly pay the property taxes through the landlords.
 
Yeah my alma mater isn't perfect but Duke isnt the reason rents are high in Durham. Corporate real estate hoarding is a much bigger problem.
 
Imagine how cheap rent would be in Chapel Hill without UNC.If Chapel Hill would even exist...........
 
aGDevil2k said:
Yeah my alma mater isn't perfect but Duke isnt the reason rents are high in Durham. Corporate real estate hoarding is a much bigger problem.
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That and people coming from other parts of the country where a $300K and up three bedroom and two bath house is cheaper to them, but crazy to most folks who grew up in Durham.
 
Dook does okay with the community image stuff. I had kid that went to Penn and they literally had the traditional campus walled and gated to keep Philadelphia out..
Having said that, anytime a multibillion dollar "corporation" serving Kids of millionaire families gets a little bad press it is likely a good thing to make people "think".......
 
The other issue people run into when wages go up is rents go right up with them. You still have the same number of rental units. Just more dollars chasing them.
 
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