Asked by erica_bischoff
I have been at Bowie State for 2 years and both of those years I lived on campus. So I thought maybe this year I could just live at home and take the bus to campus, and therefore I did not apply for housing on campus for this year. The only problem is this past May my mother decided to move from Maryland to New York to live with her friend, and my father is living with his mother. So now we no longer have a house in Maryland, meaning that I have nowhere to stay unless I stay on campus. I called the housing department and they said the on campus housing is pretty much full and the chances that there will be anything available for me are very low. And apartments in that area are very expensive ($600/month just for the cheapest 1 bedroom I could find). Plus it is next to impossible to get a job around there, and I can't drive. Even if I had a roomate I would still have to have a steady source of income to be able to stay anywhere besides on campus and to pay for the bus. What can I do?