Where students live
The market sits in the Logan neighbourhood, immediately around campus, and Gonzaga itself owns a large slice of it. Sinto Avenue, Sharp Avenue, Boone Avenue and Mission Avenue hold the university-owned houses and the Lamplighter and Sinto apartments — all within a few blocks, all leased per student, and all restricted to upper-division students. The private market runs alongside on the same streets: Ruby Street has 940 North, the one purpose-built by-the-bed building; Lidgerwood, Superior and Astor Streets hold the big shared houses that define Logan, with five and six bedrooms rented as whole units. Further out, Iron Bridge Way and downtown Spokane are conventional apartments. Note that Gonzaga's off-campus page still points students at gonzagaoffcampus.org — that domain now redirects to an auto body shop. The working portal is offcampushousing.gonzaga.edu.
Heads up — this school breaks the usual rules
- Gonzaga publishes its Twin XL as 78 inches long, not 80 — stated twice in the same line, as 78" and 6'6". Every Twin XL sheet sold at retail is cut for 80". The width is published nowhere except an image file.
- Upper-division students are told to buy FULL sheets. The official packing list says "Full Size Sheets (Upper Division: 3rd & 4th Year)" while two other Gonzaga pages insist "all beds require extra long twin size sheets." Kennedy Apartments settles it: floors 4 and 5 are Full.
- Kennedy floors 2 and 3 advertise "two Twin XL beds to make California King" — which is geometrically impossible. Two Twin XL side by side is 76" x 80", a standard King. A California King is 72" x 84". Buy King sheets, or two Twin XL sets.
- The refrigerator cap is 0.5 amps — about 60 watts. No 4 cubic foot fridge on the market draws that little, yet the packing list explicitly invites a 4 cu ft fridge. Gonzaga's two rules cannot both be satisfied.
- Ring cameras and all personal video cameras are banned, alongside slow cookers, torches, liquid oxygen containers and engine parts. Wax melters, unusually, are explicitly allowed as a candle substitute.
- Personal air conditioners are banned, and Gonzaga never says which halls have AC. Not one hall page lists air conditioning either way. Fans are on the official packing list; that is the tell.
- The residency page and the exemption form publish different exemption lists. The policy page offers six exceptions including age 21 and disability; the actual form offers four, and neither of those two is among them.
- Breaking housing costs "up to and including the entire upcoming year's rent" — but the residency page itself publishes no penalty at all for simply not complying.
Buying the standard college checklist here will waste money — check your year and your building before you buy sheets.
Apartments & rentals students actually use
| Community | Distance | Units & rates | Furnished? | Website |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sinto Apartments — 2 Bedroom Gonzaga-owned, leased per student, and the cheapest bed anywhere near campus — cheaper than any dorm room. Upper-division only, fewer than 100 students across all GU-owned properties, and they fill fast. Applications open October 1 | E Sinto Ave · a few blocks from campus | 2-bedroom apartment $2,482.25 per student per semester · about $551/month | Not published | gonzaga.edu |
| Sinto Apartments — Townhouse The townhouse tier, still university-owned and still per student — a little more space than the 2-bedroom for about $180 a semester more | E Sinto Ave · a few blocks from campus | Townhouse $2,663.75 per student per semester | Not published | gonzaga.edu |
| Gonzaga-owned houses Check the rate carefully — Gonzaga publishes two contradictory figures. The rate summary says $4,272 per student per semester; the off-campus rates page says $2,640 fall and $3,300 spring. That is a $2,604 difference over a year for the same houses | Boone, Sinto, Mission and Sharp Ave · walking distance | Whole houses, per-student billing $4,272/semester or $2,640 + $3,300 — sources disagree | Not published | gonzaga.edu |
| 940 North The only purpose-built by-the-bed building in the market — fully furnished, all-inclusive, eight-minute walk. Note that Gonzaga's own portal prints $3,676, which is the whole four-bed unit, not one bed. The 4-bedroom was showing sold out | 940 N Ruby St · 8-min walk | 3BR/2BA, 4BR/2BA $919–$1,039 per bed · 1,211–1,588 sq ft | Fully furnished | 940north.com |
| 1317 N Lidgerwood St The cheapest effective per-bed cost in the private market — a six-bedroom house at $3,600 splits to $600 a bed. That is arithmetic, not a published per-bed rate, and it needs all six beds filled | 1317 N Lidgerwood St · 5-min walk | 6BR house $3,600 per unit · ~$600/bed derived | Not published | offcampushousing.gonzaga.edu |
| 717 E Sinto Ave A six-bedroom, two-bath house seven minutes out — splits to about $675 a bed, the standard shape of the Logan market | 717 E Sinto Ave · 7-min walk | 6BR/2BA house $4,050 per unit · ~$675/bed derived | Not published | offcampushousing.gonzaga.edu |
| The 803 Apartments The cheapest studio near campus at $675 and a five-minute walk — the practical option if you want to live alone rather than fill a six-bedroom house | 803 E Sharp Ave · 5-min walk | Studio and up $675–$3,000 per unit | Not published | offcampushousing.gonzaga.edu |
| The Academy Conventional apartments in a converted building, studio through four-bedroom townhouse. Gonzaga's portal and the aggregators disagree on both the address and the walk time — 216 vs 1216 N Superior, 7 minutes vs 17. Utilities are extra here, unlike most of this list | N Superior St · 7–17 min walk, sources differ | Studio–2BR; also 2x2, 3x3, 4x4 townhouse $980–$1,950 per unit · 227–1,545 sq ft | Unfurnished | academyapts.com |
| Ironside Apartments Sixteen minutes out but the largest units in the comparison set at over 1,000 sq ft, with heat, water, internet, cable and snow removal included | 1411 Iron Bridge Way · 16-min walk | 1–2BR $1,247–$2,150 per unit · 1,089–1,187 sq ft | Not published | offcampushousing.gonzaga.edu |
Details compiled from public listings and property sites, August 2026. Rates and availability change every lease season — verify everything with the property.
How it compares to a dorm
A standard Gonzaga double is $4,090 a semester, and first- and second-years must buy a meal plan starting at $3,790 — so the required first two years run about $15,760 a year. The moment you clear four semesters, the university's own Sinto 2-bedroom at $2,482.25 a semester becomes available, which is roughly $551 a month and cheaper than every dorm room on campus. In the private market a six-bedroom house on Lidgerwood splits to about $600 a bed, and 940 North — the only furnished by-the-bed building — runs $919 and up on a twelve-month lease. The Gonzaga-owned stock is the best deal in Spokane; there are fewer than 100 beds and applications open October 1.
What you'll need
The Gonzaga-owned houses and apartments do not publish whether they are furnished, and neither do most of the Logan houses, so assume a full build until you have it in writing: bed and mattress, seating, table, kitchenware. 940 North is furnished. The Gonzaga-specific note is the bedding one: if you are coming out of Kennedy floors 4 or 5 those were Full beds, and if you are an upper-division student Gonzaga has been telling you to buy Full sheets all along — so nothing transfers cleanly. And the appliance rules relax completely off campus: the 0.5-amp fridge cap, the slow-cooker ban, the halogen ban, the Ring camera ban and the air-conditioner ban all disappear. Buy a fan anyway, or an AC unit if your lease allows it.
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