“If we are going to be isolated from the world, it might as well be really fun and we have each other,” one USC student said. College students are making their own off-campus pods to learn remotely and experience some semblance of college life together.
Like thousands of students across the country, Harlow Brooks has resigned herself to the fact that her first year of college will be different from what she expected.
“If we are going to be isolated from the world, it might as well be really fun and we have each other,” Brooks said. The arrangement also allows them to avoid some of the less-pleasant rituals of dorm life, like schlepping towels and shower shoes to shared stalls. But perhaps most practically, many returning students signed leases for off-campus housing months ago — industry experts say landlords that specialize in student housing are typically signing up tenants beginning in October of the previous year — and are loath to let that money go, even if they won’t be attending classes in person.
Bayless’ firm is betting that students and parents will prefer housing that’s more like a typical apartment than a dorm — there’s rarely a communal bathroom or kitchen in off-campus student housing, though students do frequently share bedrooms. That some students still want to be near their universities regardless of how their classes are delivered is “encouraging” for the off-campus housing industry, said Jennifer Cassidy, executive vice president and chief operating officer at Campus Advantage, a property management company that specializes in student housing.
In April and May, shortly after colleges sent students home and before they started announcing their plans for the fall en masse, off-campus housing operators saw less interest than typical in signing leases for the upcoming year, according to Real Page. But leasing activity started to pick back up in June.
“It was a little stressful,” Saffold said of the experience in early July. “There’s a whole rush of students who are trying to find apartments and leases were filling up really quickly. Within a day or two we had to find this complex and apply and sign for a lease.” “As much fun as it is and as much of a community as it is, it’s like a petri dish for germs,” Saffold said of dorms. “As soon as one person on the hall gets sick, everybody gets sick.”
Perhaps more broadly, housing availability may influence whether students enroll and tuition is a major source of funds for most schools. “Housing is a key ingredient in basically a residential campus experience happening at all,” McClure said. Watching campus culture closely Parthi Dasondi, 20, will be watching the bar and frat culture closely at Rutgers University this fall when she moves to New Brunswick, New Jersey, where one of the school’s campuses is located, for her senior year. The school announced in July that it would be offering basically all of its coursework online and severely limiting capacity in on-campus housing.
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