Additional Resources
Memorandum of Understanding with the City, County and University
In September 2018, the City of Davis, County of Yolo and the University of California, Davis agreed to a memorandum of understanding, or MOU, on a series of shared goals and commitments to improve collaboration and partnership.
Commitment to create more housing options for students
Access to housing is a significant challenge throughout the state of California and critical to supporting the strong sense of community cultivated by our university. To provide future students with easy access to academic resources and multiple options to live on campus, UC Davis is undergoing the most ambitious student housing construction initiative in its history – one that even exceeds the university’s potential enrollment growth.
The terms of the MOU include a commitment to build more housing for students and a guarantee to house 100 percent of any new student enrollment growth on campus. Since the MOU agreement in 2018, enrollment has grown by just over 3,100 students. With the opening of Orchard Park in fall 2023, UC Davis added almost double the amount of beds — around 6,000 — over several large projects, including new construction of resident halls and campus apartments. Find a recap below.
Residential Halls
- Tercero District (open in 2017): The redevelopment of Leach Hall apartments accommodated an additional 500 student with flexible space that can be configured with two or three beds based on demand.
- Cuarto District: Yosemite Hall (open in 2019) and Shasta Hall (open in 2022) were constructed to replace Webster Hall and Emerson Hall and accommodate an additional 440 beds in rooms that allow for two- or three-bed configurations.
Campus Apartments
- The Green at West Village (open in fall 2020 and 2021): This project provides housing for approximately 3,290 students among nine apartment buildings
- Orchard Park Redevelopment Project (opening planned for fall 2023): The project will provide apartments for approximately 1,486 students, including students with families. Orchard Park will accommodate four times as many students as the development it replaced.
2022 - 2023 Joint Housing Report
Find out more about how the housing landscape has changed since the inception of this agreement in the 2022 - 2023 Joint Housing Report, the first one since the inaugural report in 2018.
Additional MOU Commitments
The MOU also includes the development of joint transportation plan and traffic improvement projects, the elimination of master leases in the City of Davis and the formation of a stronger town-gown partnership through a variety of collaborative activities. Track the progress made meeting the goals set out in the MOU by expanding the boxes below.