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[quote=Anonymous]University of Dayton has very unique student housing.  70% of all undergrads live in student housing and they require two years on campus.  Freshmen live in traditional dorms on campus.  Sophomores have the option of dorms or apartments.  The apartments are in the "student neighborhood" which is a neighborhood of single family homes and duplexes directly adjacent to campus.  There's one high rise apartment building and several garden style apartment buildings in the neighborhood.  I think mainly sophomores live in the high rise and juniors are in the garden apartments.  I think its difficult to get a university house until senior year (lottery.)

The neighborhood has houses and duplexes that were originally built as company homes for NCR back before/at the turn of the century.  Students started moving into the houses in the 1950s when the university grew.  When I lived there in the mid 80s, there were still a few families in the neighborhood, but most of the houses were occupied by students.  Today, I don't think there are any families left - it's 100% students.  Today, most of the homes are owned by the university but there still are some owned by landlords.  The university owned homes are considered on campus housing.  The school has had to tear down some of the homes and they've built new ones that have the character of the original homes.

So the 30% of students that are not living in "dorms" are most likely living in landlord homes in the neighborhood.
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