With the price of rent increasing tremendously in Boca Raton, many FAU upperclassmen have opted to live on-campus instead of living off-campus, causing a shortage of dorm space for incoming underclassmen.
According to Insurify, Boca Raton is one of the US cities with the highest increases in rent prices, with the median apartment costing $2,074 a month.
So, instead of moving into dorms, some FAU students will be checking into hotels this fall, due to a housing shortage on campus.
Florida Atlantic University sent an email to a number of incoming freshmen families earlier this month notifying that they cannot provide housing.
The email states that dorms are at capacity “due to the size of our first-year class and the high volume of housing contracts we received.”
Nevertheless, FAU also told parents via email that they’ve secured a limited number of hotel rooms at the Fairfield Inn and the Renaissance Hotel in Boca Raton. Students can sign up to live in those rooms and take a shuttle to campus.