Getting It Wrong in the ‘Loft-Right’ Dorms

Dorms built by a private developer at DePaul University have generated a number of complaints among students, according to a article in the Sun-Times. The apartments were supposed to be “luxury living,” but students have been fleeing the building for its noise and other problems, and it is now only 60-percent full. The building is called Loft-Right. Students have dubbed it “Loft-Wrong.”

The dorms were built by a nonprofit developer, MJH Education Assistance Illinois, and revenue from the rent has been paying for an endowed professor’s position at DePaul. That position is now in jeopary, officials at MJH say.

The article notes that other privately financed dorms in the area are also opening under capacity.