[Someone1234]

It always shocked me that for the amount American students pay for on-campus housing that they don't even get their own room.

Here while rooms might be only slightly bigger than a jail cell (room for one single bed, a desk, small closet and a bathroom w/shower); they also cost less and students get their privacy. They still share a kitchen and other spaces.

It is like student housing in the US is still set up like it is really cheap but actually costs insane amounts of money.

[delazeur]

I paid somewhere between $1,200 and $1,400 per month to share 180 square feet with one other person, and I was lucky not to be sharing with two other people. I could never prove it, but I strongly suspect either the university or their contractors were making a handsome profit off of on-campus housing.