# DU to house students in vacant staff quarters from 2 November 2026-10-18T19:21:58+00:00 | Governance | Indian Opinion Desk Corroboration: 1 independent outlet Delhi University will use empty staff quarters to provide affordable housing for students from other states. Renovation of six Type-1 quarters, each with a room, kitchen and bathroom, in the Post Graduate Men’s Hostel is complete. They will be available from 2 November. An eight-member committee set up to address housing shortages has recommended renovating quarters at Reads Line and the Reads Line and Dhaka Campus premises. Rooms may be shared. The university’s engineering department has been asked to survey other vacant quarters across campuses. A housing portal is also being built. DU is considering increasing hostel capacity and may allow two students per room where feasible. ## Indian Opinion Analysis Delhi University will let students live in empty staff quarters. To tackle a housing shortage for out-of-state students, the university has finished renovating six Type-1 quarters in the Post Graduate Men's Hostel. These will open on 2 November. An eight-member committee has also recommended renovating vacant quarters at Reads Line and Dhaka Campus. A portal to show housing availability is being built. The university is also considering increasing existing hostel capacity by putting two students in rooms where possible. ## Coverage - amarujala.com Straight reporting on a university decision, no slant. This brief was synthesised by AI from the source linked above. Tags: Delhi University Canonical: https://indianopinion.org/du-to-house-students-in-vacant-staff-quarters-from-2-november/ License: Summary and commentary (c) Indian Opinion, reusable with attribution. Facts belong to the linked sources. Cite: https://indianopinion.org/du-to-house-students-in-vacant-staff-quarters-from-2-november/#story-in-brief How this brief was made: an AI model read the report linked above and wrote this summary and analysis, which were published automatically. Published briefs are sampled every hour by an automated quality check; the editor verifies its findings and approves corrections, and corrected briefs carry a dated correction line. We do no original reporting. Methodology: https://indianopinion.org/ai-use-policy/