The students who don't pay the university for housing pay local landlords top dollar for the hundreds of rental properties near the university. The people that used to occupy these hundreds of rental properties because they were close to their jobs in Burlington cannot compete with wealthy college students and have to move to Plattsburgh or some other surrounding area and the people that used to live locally in Plattsburgh now how to move outwards becasue they can't compete with the ex-Burlington residents. The cycle continues rippling outwards from Burlington. UVM has tons of space and cash to put up a few additional housing developments for their students.