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Off-Campus Student Housing

Between 2009 and 2011, there were 23.2 million college students in the U.S. In 2013, the Census Bureau recorded that 25% resided off-campus. What does that mean for insurers of these properties?

14 minute read October 01, 2014 at 01:38 PM
By
Mary-Pat Cormier And Jennifer Garner
Off-Campus Student Housing

This year, The Boston Globe published “Shadow Campus,” which exposed off-campus housing conditions that lead to the 2013 death of Boston University senior Binland Lee. Ms. Lee died of smoke inhalation, trapped in her attic bedroom.

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