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Cal Poly delays opening new dorm, requiring some students to have roommates

July 30, 2026

By JOSH FRIEDMAN

Cal Poly has delayed the opening of a new residence hall, resulting in some students who signed up for signed up for single-occupancy rooms being required to have a roommate.

The university is currently in constructing a student housing development on campus. The first building of the multi-phase project was due to open for the upcoming fall semester, but has now been delayed.

As a result of the delay, the university is converting four-bedroom, four person apartments in Poly Canyon Village to three-bedroom, six-person apartments. The three-bedroom apartments will also have a designated study room.

The change will temporarily require some students who signed up for single-occupancy rooms to share their rooms with another student. While the change is in place, the impacted students will receive a 50% reduction in their housing fees.

When the new housing complex opens, the Poly Canyon apartments will return to their original occupancy plans.

 


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Is this the one that Central Coast Builders’ Gary Grossman built? What’s the cause of the delay? I hope it’s for inspections!


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GG is a private developer, and this is a university housing project (Cal Poly/ the state is the developer, permitting agency, and inspector). They are working with a modular building company plus general contractor(s) for the site development.


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Surely the will charge half the price for shared rooms.


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“50% reduction” IS “half the price”.


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They are. At first, they were only offering a few hundred bucks per month off the original price. But after much backlash, the policy was changed so that any student impacted by this temporary change is being given a 50% of credit during the months they are forced to share a room.


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Yes, I read somewhere that the shared dorm rooms will be heavily discounted now.


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