Visual by Jasper Smith. While students prepare for the school year ahead of them, many Howard University upperclassmen are navigating the challenges of living off campus amid record-high inflation. Students express the frustration they feel finding apartments and adjusting to the rising cost of living, a predicament many did not anticipate to face when they […]
How did a humble college town in upstate New York become one of the least affordable zip codes in the United States? To piece together some answers, I turned to a number of local historical and academic sources. What I unearthed was a loose narrative of a small town warping under the weight of student demand.