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Tucson's 15.9% rental vacancy rate: Mini-dorms in a sick housing market

Tucson's 15.9% rental vacancy rate: Mini-dorms in a sick housing market

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Pamela Powers
Aug 07, 2011
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Tucson's 15.9% rental vacancy rate: Mini-dorms in a sick housing market
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Each August Tucson-- like college towns nationwide-- sees a flurry of activity as students move back to town and scramble to find lodging. In recent years, local mini-dorm developers have gone wild-- buying up cheap houses (thanks to record foreclosures and a glut of houses for sale), unceremoniously …

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