Theoretical Underpinning for Understanding Student Housing

Abstract

Student housing is an entity in housing studies which researchers relegated to the background, this may not be unconnected to the fact that it has relative less problems in terms of financing, substandard quality and provision of infrastructure facilities and services since institutions’ has taken complete responsibility of everything. However, in the last few decades, enrolment in higher education institutions has been precipitously exceeding the limited institutions student housing which generates striking demand in the private housing rental market which stunned scholars in student housing studies. Students living in the private sector properties were said to have faced more challenges than those living in hall of resident therefore, advantages and  the nature of these challenges were discuss in this paper.

Keywords: Student housing, on-campus, off-campus, higher education institution (HEI)