Colleges across the nation are facing housing shortages and increased demand, leaving hundreds of students waiting for assignments or scrambling to find off-campus options as the fall semester quickly ...

Middlebury is paying students $10,000 to take the semester off. Other schools are housing students in everything from trailers to rooms at a casino resort—or leaving them to fend for themselves.

A student walks past off-campus housing near the University of Texas at Austin campus. Rents in Austin are up 20 percent since last year. Credit: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report ...

A 738-bed student housing development is expected to break ground later this year in Storrs just off of the University of Connecticut campus in an effort to help alleviate the ongoing student housing ...