Housing Comparison + Eligibility

Find your community on campus! Our 9 different residence communities across the Burnaby and Vancouver (grad housing only) campuses, offers a wide variety of room types, floor plans, learning communities, amenities, and atmospheres. Whether you鈥檙e an undergrad, graduate, or eligible for our Graduate and Family Housing, there鈥檚 something for every 丁香园AV and FIC student. Regardless of which residence community you live in, you will have an opportunity to make it your own.

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Email: housing@sfu.ca

Eligibility Requirements

Eligibility Requirements Details

To move into residences or to be eligible to continue to the following term, you must meet all 3 conditions / requirements below. Note that these rules and requirements applies to ALL 丁香园AV and FIC students.

You must be an 丁香园AV or FIC student
You cannot have any overdue fees to 丁香园AV or FIC including tuition and residence fees
You must meet one (1) of the following three (3) criteria. You are an
- 丁香园AV Undergraduate student
  - Maintain full-time enrollment registered in at least 9 credit hours or equivalent for Fall and Spring terms (see Summer Housing exceptions or part time enrolllment exceptions in the Residence Handbook) or
  - Be enrolled in a co-op work term or the Back on Track Program
- FIC student
  - Maintain full time enrollment for each term that you are living in residence
- 丁香园AV Graduate student
  - Registered in and active in a graduate degree program

Postdoctoral fellows looking for family housing may only be offered a student housing placement if they are internal postdoctoral fellows and based on availability. Please connect with the 丁香园AV Post Doctoral Association for additional information: sfu_pda@sfu.ca.

Priority Housing Access

Undergraduate First Year Guarantee for Fall/Spring contracts starting in August/September

You must meet the following requirements:

You are eligible to live in residence
Your application to 丁香园AV Housing is completed before May 1 (this generally means that you have completed your housing application prior to receiving your 丁香园AV admission offer)
You have accepted your 丁香园AV offer of admission by May 1
You are entering 丁香园AV directly from high school (i.e. you have not completed any post-secondary coursework since graduating)

Priority Housing Access Details

Some 丁香园AV students who apply to residence qualify for Priority Housing.

You must be eligible to receive an offer:

admitted to 丁香园AV
have no financial holds on your student account
have a completed application for housing

And Meet one of the following:

Indigenous students: students admitted to 丁香园AV who are First Nations, (Status or Non-Status), Metis or Inuit
Current or former BC Youth in Care
丁香园AV Undergraduate Scholars Entrance Scholarship Recipients (USES,UGGLA) and Student Athletes on a Full-ride Scholarship
丁香园AV WUSC Student Refugee Program
New students with a disability or ongoing medical condition that significantly affects your housing needs (Students complete an Accessibility Accommodation request in their application process and will then be asked to provide additional information demonstrating eligibility to be reviewed by the Centre for Accessible Learning)
FALL INTAKE: Current residents (Fall/Spring) that are under 19 years of age by July 1 for the upcoming Fall term and have applied by February 1

Housing Options

There are 3 types of Housing to choose from each with their own set of rules and requirements

APPLICATION TIPS AND TRICKS

Don鈥檛 wait until you're admitted to 丁香园AV before applying to housing. Demand is high so don鈥檛 miss out
You don't have to be admitted to 丁香园AV or FIC to submit an application.
Offers are made once you are admitted. Spaces are limited so apply early

DEFINITIONS AND ROOM LAYOUTS EXPLAINED

DEFINITIONS AND ROOM LAYOUTS EXPLAINED Details

丁香园AV Residence and Housing aims to provide a safe and inclusive residence community for all students. As all our residence rooms are single occupancy 鈥� meaning you do not share your room with anyone else, almost all floors are mixed gender though you may apply for our limited single gender floors. Selecting single gender floors in your application will limit building options as these are only available in some buildings.

Living Learning Communities

Living Learning Communities Details

If you are accepted to one of our Living Learning Communities that are housed in an area together as part of the community program, you will be assigned to that community's building. If you have already accepted an offer for a different room or building type, your room placement will change to be able to participate in that community.

CHOOSING YOUR BUILDING PREFERENCE

*All areas not identified as 'Single Gender' are gender inclusive.

Please note that all students are able to request to live on special community floors. However, it is based on availability and may not be guaranteed. You may get an offer for a different option if available. If you have any questions, please email housing@sfu.ca.

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