The Boston City Council voted Oct. 1 to amend the City’s University Accountability Ordinance to shift the student housing reporting deadline to Nov. 1 and to require an annual council hearing on the city’s student housing trends report.

Councilor Durkin, who sponsored the amendments, said the law — originally adopted in 2004 — requires universities to report enrollment and housing data that the city uses to prepare an annual student housing trends report. Durkin told colleagues the Oct. 1 deadline did not give institutions time to capture add/drop and early-semester housing shifts and that November reporting would yield more accurate figures.

“These changes will help the university accountability ordinance ensure that we have reliable data, and help us balance the needs of students, universities, and neighborhoods,” Durkin said. She also proposed requiring an annual council hearing to translate the data into policy and oversight action.

Councilor Coletta Zapata, chair of Government Operations, said the item had already been the subject of a June hearing and an August working session and recommended same-day passage because the amendments were narrowly scoped and widely supported. Councilor Braden said an annual council hearing and a later reporting date would help inform institutional master planning and neighborhood-level enforcement.

The council suspended the rules and passed the amendment ordinance the same day it was introduced. The changes alter the reporting timeline and add a council oversight hearing but do not add substantive new reporting categories beyond what the ordinance already requires.

Docket 1747 passed by voice vote; the council directed the clerk to place the amended ordinance on the record and to notify the mayor’s office and affected universities of the new reporting deadline.

Councilors said they would use the annual hearing to review current trends, enforcement challenges and to inform the city’s institutional master planning process.