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Aaron Smithson is a dual master in architecture and master in urban planning candidate at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He is a research assistant at the Joint Center for Housing Studies and his writing has appeared in The Architect's Newspaper and Dwell.
With the fall semester underway, ballooning school enrollments and a dire affordable housing crisis are creating student housing shortages across the country.