| Michael Coakley has the responsibility for the third largest university housing program in the United States, at the four campuses of Arizona State University in metropolitan Phoenix. SHB recently spoke to Coakley about his experience, goals and challenges.
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|  The customer is always right...
In the case of student housing, the students are who the industry should want to hear from. In each issue, Student Housing Business will reach out to students to make their opinions known. In this issue, we asked questions to students living at Illini Tower at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana.
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| Lenders still have a strong appetite for student housing sector.
While the capital markets for the student housing sector have somewhat mirrored the woes of other sectors within commercial real estate, this specialty product has been favored over others. And as its performance has continued to increase, so has the appetite from lenders.
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| The position I hold with The Collier Companies is executive chair. Most of the time, what is on my mind, what I focus on, is the long term, the distant strategic horizon. As I contemplate how to successfully steer The Collier Companies (TCC) through the next decade, I look back on the vast changes that have occurred in the student housing arena over just the last few decades.
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