Returner Registration

Returner Registration for 2024-2025 is now closed. If you missed Returner Registration you can still register to live with us for the 24/25 Academic year through the Housing Portal, and indicate your preferred unit types.

What is Returner Registration?

Returner Registration allows current residents to choose their housing for the upcoming academic year before new incoming students are assigned. This is the only time residents pick their own unit exactly where they want it. Choose from any of our buildings.

To participate, current residents must submit a housing contract by 4pm on Monday, February 26th. Residents will have two options:

• Renew your current room (not applicable for all units)
• Pick a new room

Additional information on this page:

• Special Communities (Second Year Experience, Honors Housing, Blackstone Quads)
• Roommates 
• Summer Housing Options
• Financial Information

Renew Your Room

Room Renewal is available for residents who want to stay continuously through Summer 2024 and the 2024-2025 academic year in the same unit. A Summer 2024 contract is required to renew for 2024-2025.

Residents who will not live on campus for Summer term cannot renew their current unit and should select the Pick A New Room option. Some units will be closed for Summer 2024 (Ondine, St Helens, Blackstone Quads, Stephen Epler, and select units). Residents in those units should select the Pick a New Room option below.

Steps to complete to Renew Your Room:

1. Complete Summer 2024 Contract via the Housing Portal first. You must have a summer contract in order to renew your same room.
2. Complete 2024-2025 Contract by 4pm, February 26th

Unfurnished units are very limited and in high demand. Residents currently living in an unfurnished unit are encouraged to renew, as selecting a new unfurnished unit may not be possible.

If a resident renews their unit and later cancels their summer contract, a revised academic year assignment may be issued.

Pick a New Room

Current residents have priority to pick a new room before new incoming students are assigned. Selection times are assigned in the order contracts are received, so it is a good idea to submit your contract as early as possible.

Steps to be completed Pick a New Room:

1. Complete 2024-2025 Contract via the Housing Portal by 4pm, February 26th
2. At the end of February, you will receive an email with your assigned selection time to pick your new unit. This email will tell you how long you have to pick your new unit. Read it carefully.
3. When your selection time opens (between March 5-15), log into the Housing Portal and select your room.

We encourage residents to research our photos, unit types & buildings to identify between two and three room types and between five and ten specific units in advance of your selection time.  This ensures that you are well prepared to pick your new room when your selection time opens in March.

Tips for Picking a Room

The most common mistake residents make is selecting a room before reviewing their options and later regretting their choice. All selection times are staggered so that students have time to choose a unit. There is no need to rush. If you select a unit and later wish to change it, your original selection will be cancelled and you will receive a new selection time to pick a new room. Your new time slot will be assigned at the end of all other selection times, so there is no guarantee that you will find a better unit the second time.

If you do not select a room by the time your room selection timeslot closes, your 2024-2025 Housing Contract will be cancelled. You will lose priority housing options and you would have to reactivate your contract if you wish to receive an assignment at a later date. 

Special Communities

Second Year Experience: The Second Year Experience (SYE) community is located in the renovated St. Helens building. Priority for the SYE community is given to students currently in a First Year Experience community in Broadway, Ondine or Stephen Epler. All SYE units are double furnished units (one-bedroom and studio).

Honors Housing: Residents admitted to the University Honors College will be eligible to select a unit on the Honors Floors in Stephen Epler. Only residents with the Honors designation will be able to select units on these floors.

Blackstone Quad: Priority for Blackstone Quads is given to complete groups of four residents and is assigned in the order in which we receive your request and completed contracts. If a resident wants to reserve a space in one of the Blackstone Quads, they will select the Quad option in the Housing Contract and then complete the Quad Request Form. Each resident must fill out the Quad Request Form and indicate their other three quadmates no later than 4pm, February 26th to be considered. 

Roommates

Residents selecting a double-furnished unit who have identified their preferred roommate for the academic year can complete the following process:

1. Each resident must submit a 2024-2025 housing contract prior to 4pm, February 26th.
2. Between February 12th and 4pm, February 26th, log into the Housing Portal to identify your roommate using the Roommate Search process. You will need your preferred roommate's PSU email address to search.
3. Once requested, the selected roommate will be notified by email and will have 48 hours to accept or decline the request. They must log into the Housing Portal to confirm prior to 4pm, February 26th to be paired.
4. When your selection time opens, the roommate with the earlier selection time will select a room for both residents. Please make sure both roommates agree to the selected unit. Discuss your respective budgets prior to beginning the process.
5. The roommate with the later selection time does not need to complete any action during the selection time, as their roommate will have already selected a room for the both of them. They may log into the Housing Portal to see their selected room.

In order for the Roommate Search Tool to work, both roommates must:

1. Be a current resident
2. Have a matching gender
3. Have submitted a 2024-2025 Housing Contract.

Roommates with different genders should see the Roommate Gender Matching section below.

Roommate Gender Matching

If a resident wants to share a double unit with a roommate of a different gender, one resident should select the unit when their selection time opens. Both roommates should then email housing@pdx.edu indicating the other resident as their preferred roommate and specify what unit they wish to share.  UHRL will manually assign the second resident to the unit that was selected, and the second resident will need to accept or decline the Housing assignment offer once they receive it. 
Units with more than two occupants (Blackstone quads and Ondine suites) must have matching genders.

Live in Portland This Summer

Current residents are eligible to live on campus without taking summer courses, even if they are graduating at the end of spring term. Residents who renew their room for 2024-2025 will stay in the same unit. Students living in unfurnished units during Spring 2024 may select to remain in their current unit through summer term. 

In most cases, residents with a reserved room for the 2024-2025 academic year will transfer to that unit at the beginning of Summer term. If the unit is unavailable or if a resident is only staying for summer, they will move to a Summer Housing Building (Montgomery Court, Broadway, or Blumel). All summer units are furnished. Rooms do not have air conditioning. If a resident is continuing through 2024-2025 in a different unit than their summer space, they will likely transfer rooms during one of two transfer weekends in late summer.

Remember that summer contracts are separate from academic year contracts.  Students planning to remain in campus housing this summer and through the next academic year must submit both a summer housing contract and an academic year housing contract.  Both may be submitted in the Housing Portal.  

Summer Room Transfers: Residents will be notified of their summer room transfer details in May. Most current residents with summer contracts will transfer to their summer housing unit on June 22. Residents must be available to transfer that weekend. Residents who are not available to transfer should plan to move their belongings out of their unit prior to June 15, and return with their items on June 22 or after.

Fall Room Transfers: Residents with 2024-2025 contracts will transfer to fall units on August 24th, September 7th, or another weekend idenitified by UHRL. Residents will be notified of their fall transfer date in July. Residents must be available to transfer during the transfer period they are assigned. Residents who are not available to transfer should plan to move their belongings out prior to their transfer date, and return with their items on or after their assigned room transfer date.

Financial Details

CONTRACT FEE

Residents will be charged a $50 Contract Fee to their student account when they submit their 2024-2025 Contract. Payment will be due by the 6th of the following month.

SPRING PREPAYMENT

Residents who complete a 2024-2025 Housing Contract will be charged a $140 Prepayment that will be due in Fall 2024. Students will have a $140 Room Rate Reduction in Spring Term 2025 (i.e. a unit that normally costs $2050/term will cost $1910 in Spring Term). Students who cancel their contract anytime after May 1, 2024 will not receive a refund of the Spring Prepayment.

CANCELLATIONS

Your contract will be cancelled if you do not pick a new room during your selection time, or if you do not respond to a manual Housing assignment offer.

Summer cancellation fees may apply. Please refer to the Terms and Conditions and Cancellation Guide. These documents contain cancellation dates and information.

Any resident who cancels their academic year Contract after June 15, 2024 will pay a buyout fee. For more information, see 2024–2025 Terms & Conditions.