Rooms are spacious and can fit queen size bed, full desk, and dresser with enough walking space.

Palo Verde provided a spacious living area compared to other graduate apartments on campus. However, the buildings are older and do not have elevators.

The downside is there’s no elevator

Great for price and proximity

Great experience, quiet and spacious, very cheap for area.

It's a bit old and it has it's downsides, but it is worth the price for the OC area and it is within walking distance to classes. I consider the set-up to be excellent for what I need.

Palo Verde housing review

Overall great! A few complaints of neighbors stomping upstairs late at night

I used to live in UCLA graduate housing, so I'll be comparing the two. This apartment is in a safe and quiet community. Irvine, overall, has no nightlife, but at least you're 13 minutes from the beach. Most of the graduate students are anti-social (they don't make much eye contact or say hi). It's walking distance to the gym. They have a great pet policy for cats though.
My old 1 bdrm 1bathroom had more storage space than my 2bdrm 2bathroom here. There's no elevators, no air conditioning and the building materials are fairly cheap. In UCLA's graduate housing there was laundry and a trash chute on every floor. In this housing and Verano's you have to carry your laundry and garbage outside (extremely NOT ADA friendly). You're lucky to get covered parking, so expect your car to get dirty. In exchange you'll have a good bit of wildlife around to watch though. Housing is affordable compared to the rest of Irvine and the housing staff are friendly and helpful.

I live on campus at Palo Verde. I think the apartment is spacious and i receive good lighting. I also have my own parking garage and a garden plot. I love that it is close to campus and the school gym (ARC). I am also able to ahare a two bedroom space with my partner who does not go to UCI. The biggest drawbacks are the lack of Air Conditioning and a recurrent ant problem (but maintenance has come to help on this issue).