The Santa Rosa Junior College (SRJC) is currently examining the possibility of constructing student housing on its Santa Rosa campus, with the ultimate goal of offering rooms to students in Fall 2022.

In Spring 2018, SRJC contracted Scion, a leading advisory expert in the area of campus housing, to perform a housing feasibility study, with the goal of assessing SRJC’s need and availability to provide affordable, quality residential housing for students.

Scion’s initial research showed that after the fires, 7% of students surveyed reported they planned to leave SRJC and an additional 30% were considering leaving due to the cost of housing or housing insecurity (source: Scion Student Housing Survey; +/- 2.29 margin of error). 

At the October 2018 special meeting of the Board of Trustees, Scion reported that there is sufficient demand from students to justify potentially providing housing with approximately 350 beds for students on the Santa Rosa campus.

In order to examine ways to provide such housing, without imposing the financial burden on the college or the community, Scion recommended the utilization of a Public-Private Partnership (P3) financing model, in which SRJC would collaborate with a development firm to build and manage the housing on district-owned land.

On Dec. 11, 2018 meeting of the Board of Trustees, SRJC will ask the Board to approve the release of a Request for Qualifications (RFQ) to begin the process of selecting a preferred P3 vendor. This would be the first step in identifying potential partners that will bid on a full request for proposal (RFP) process in spring 2019.