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Many students after there freshman year will leave the dorms and go out to find living in other apartments or houses.  This is encouraged by the university because they need the space for the incoming freshman the next year.  But there is little housing that is owned by the university.  Many of the people that move off campus have to look to rent from non-university. The demand is very high and this creates problems for both affordability and availability.

            The demand for housing close to campus has made renting very expensive.  Also with the low availability of housing it is difficult for many students to find housing close to campus and they end up living far away from campus.  I believe the university could do more to provide housing on campus for alder students, and that if there was more university housing then there would not be these problems for renters.

            This topic has a large effect on students who have moved out of the dorms, or are going to move out of the dorms.  They do not have many options for university housing, and those spots fill up fast.  Students are then stuck paying high rent, and struggling to find a place to live.  If this was solved this would bring the campus closer together and students would not have to struggle to find and pay for housing off campus.

            I have a 2 newspaper articles that talk about the issue and I will be interviewing 2 students, one who is living off campus and one who is looking to move off campus next year.