Sophomores forced to live in dorms??

Most universities in the United States force their students and more specifically their freshmen to live on campus housing facilities. In other words, students must live in a dorm at least in their freshman year. Unfortunately, the dorms of our university are pretty overpriced especially for what they offer. I am a sophomore and I still live in a dorm but I can’t complain because the dorm I live in is considered a great dorm compared to the rest of the dorms on-campus. My point is that even though my dorm is decent, it is still really overrated for what it offers. It is pretty obvious that the off-campus housing facilities work as substitutes in my example because the demand for them increases when the price for living in the dorms increases. Not only the dorms are expensive in general but off-campus housing definitely offers more space and privacy. By the end of their freshman year, students have the option to choose between on-campus and off-campus housing facilities. Most of them choose to live off-campus not only because this alternative is cheaper but mainly because they feel that these facilities are better living option and more valuable. But now that the university has been considering of making the sophomores live in the dorms too, they do not have an option and they are forced to live somewhere that they do would not naturally choose. As a result, the students are worse off than before. Moreover, our university’s president argued that by forcing the sophomores to live on the dorms, the off-campus realtors will be forced to fix their apartments’ condition in order to rent them out to the remainder of the students (juniors and seniors). On the other hand, it is argued that the realtors rather than fixing the off-campus housing facilities would simply decrease the prices for the off-campus facilities as the demand for those facilities decrease as well. In my opinion, I disagree with the university’s proposal of forcing the sophomores live on campus because I believe that they sophomores should have options on whether they want to live and on which option is more valuable to them. Instead of forcing the sophomores live on campus, the university should make it more appealing to its students to live on campus either by lowering the prices or by improving the dorms’ condition.