ds. You look at the housing in Provo, it's the one thing that despite being 3x more expensive still looks like total dogcrap and is even older than when I was there (because most of it is literally the same buildings from when I was there).

If BYU approved housing is going to exist, BYU should charge landlords $500/month/person to remain BYU approved. At least then scarcity and high prices would benefit the University instead of what it is now where BYU creates the value, BYU enforces the scarcity, the students pay a ton for what BYU offers and then ... some slumlord in Provo gets a windfall.

No offense to any of you who may be slumlords in Provo. . .