A red tower crane stands high across the street from the UCLA campus in Westwood, where construction is ramping up for the Gayley Towers redevelopment.

The more than $100-million development, located at 565 Gayley Avenue, calls for the construction of an eight-story building which will feature 187 bedrooms, with a total of 545 beds to be provided through triple-occupancy rooms.

View looking south from Gayley AvenueUrbanize LA

Included in that total will be 358 beds for low-income undergraduate students. UCLA has received $35 million in state funding to offer beds monthly rental rate of $600. The remaining 184 beds would be priced at market rates.

Mithun is designing the Gayley Towers project, which will wrap around a central courtyard The apartments have been described as being of a "co-living" style with communal bathrooms and shared spaces for cooking, eating, studying, and socializing.

Completion is expected in September 2026.

565 Gayley AvenueGoogle Maps

The project faced an unanticipated hurdle in 2023, when the UC Regents delayed approval of the project citing concerns about the small size of the rooms, which will average approximately 266 feet in size. UCLA has spent aggressively to boost its on-campus housing stock at a time when roughly  1 in 20 University of California students have been homeless. Some have even resorted to sleeping in cars parked near the Westwood campus.

Private developers have also looked to sate the demand for student housing near UCLA, including Landmark Properties, which is building an apartment complex on nearby Strathmore Drive, and M&A Real Estate Partners, which is in construction on a project along Glenrock Avenue.

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