CONWAY, S.C. (WBTW) — As a new school year begins at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, students returning to campus are facing challenges finding places to live near campus.
Coastal Carolina University has a student body population of more than 12,000. Freshmen and sophomores receive priority for on-campus housing, leaving upperclassmen and graduate students to search for off-campus options.
Parker England, a graduate student at Coastal Carolina University, said the housing availability issue is affecting students’ ability to attend the school. “I literally got all my stuff in like, really early. But housing is like, really, really bad. Now to the point where there’s people having to live off campus or not have or not even able to attend Coastal now,” England said…