In 2016 - 2017, University of Southern Maine students spent $5,000 for housing and $4,200 for the meal plan. The table below shows the expected prices of both on-campus and off-campus housing and food plans for University of Southern Maine.
Castro Valley is a census-designated place (CDP) in Alameda County, California, United States. As of the 2000 census, it is the fifth most populous unincorporated area in California, and the twenty-third in the United States. The population was 61,388 at the 2010 census. Castro Valley is named after Don Guillermo Castro, who was a soldier in the Mexican army and a rancher. First known for chicken ranches, Castro Valley eventually became a bedroom community.
Ranching continued to be the main industry until the end of WWII. The Castro Village Shopping Center, developed by R.T. Nahas in 1949, replaced barns and tomato fields. In 1951 construction started on the largest building in Castro Valley, Eden Hospital. It took 3 years to complete. The Eastern side of town has truly developed due the acceptance the Columbia, Palomares Hills and 5 Canyons housing developments .