Students entering the housing lottery can look forward to a new addition for the upcoming year. The brownstone at 458 W113th, which currently houses transfer students will be made available to all undergraduate residents. CTV News sat down with Vice President of Axillary Services Scott Wright to discuss changes in the system, ahead of the 2010 housing selection.

"You know, the brownstone I think is very attractive housing but a lot of it is really set up as an open double. So it doesn't have the privacy that you would typically see juniors and seniors valuing highest in room selection"

The Brownstones includes 8 studio doubles, each with its own lounge area, private bathroom, and kitchen. The building will not receive any additional renovation. Last year, Housing changed the configurations of some suites in Ruggles and rooms in Watt, causing confusion for prospective residents of those halls.

"So we had heard back from Columbia College that their enrollment numbers were going to grow and we got together with a group of folks from both University Apartment and Arts & Sciences, as well as Undergraduate housing. We all kind of sat down to brainstorm what we could do to reallocate some of the use of properties so that graduate beds weren't sacrificed but we had the ample housing in the correct spaces to house the new larger number of undergraduate students. That lead to two main changes, one of them which was the brownstone you mentioned and Harmony hall being added to housing portfolio. So that's how that got into our selection and not as a special interest community or a Greek house or anything like that because it was really meant to be supplementary to the housing inventory." explained Scott Wright

In the coming months, Housing will hold information sessions for students and will lead tours of residence halls. Details are available on the Housing website.

Details are available on the Housing website.