Clearly the fact enough students are choosing to live off campus rather than pay for these luxury dorms that it's causing rent to increase in the surrounding area show that, yes the average student does go to NU. I can also attest this is true being a student at NU in the early 2010s. I agree with the students protesting here. Stop building luxury dorms that cost an arm and a leg to pay for. Build something that students can actually afford so they aren't stacking on top of their hefty student loans or having to work job/jobs on top of their schoolwork.
Honestly, universities campuses are a microcosm of the affordable housing market in Boston. It's always building more luxurious apartments so that the few people that can afford them benefits from all the amenities around and let everyone else who can't afford them fight each other to see who gets the right to jam themselves into dilapidated apartments. It's awful. If you're a poor NU student, you have to live in places like Mission Hill or beyond, away from resources such as quick access to the library, study rooms, community resource, etc. Poorer students shouldn't be disadvantaged from school resources just because they are poor and because NU isn't willing to cater to them.
