As an alumna of Jackson State, the ongoing housing crisis continues to concern me. Like current students, I was significantly affected by the crisis from fall 2022–fall 2024. I was unable to get housing for the fall 2022, spring 2023, fall 2023, and fall 2024 semesters. I have a disability that affects my mobility, and at times my ability to drive. I also have a weakened immune system due to lupus, which is an autoimmune condition. I was registered with the ADA/Disability Services Office (now known as the Office of Accessible Education and Resource Center). I have a friend who’s also an alumna that worked as a GA in Transitional Hall from summer 2022–spring 2024. When I kept getting the runaround from housing, especially the director of housing at the time, Dr. Crystal Henry, and Ketina Moore, the leasing/occupancy manager, I decided to contact my friend to get a rundown and confirm if there were spaces available in Transitional. Not only did she confirm to me that there were spaces available and housing didn’t want to give them to students, there was a girl residing in an ADA room on the first floor that did not have a disability. A non-disabled student residing in a dorm room designed for students with disabilities is a clear violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act. During the 2023–2024 room selection process, students were given computer-generated time slots to select their rooms. Also during the 2023–2024 process, FRESHMEN students with only 12–15 credit hours were given top pick for Campbell College Suites North (Boys) and South (Girls) and University Pointe (commonly known as The Sades), knowing those dorms are reserved only for returning/upperclass students with a specific amount of credit hours (30+ for CCS and 60+ for UP). It was also during this period that the CCS North Dorm Director at the time left JSU because of all the mess that was happening in the Office of Housing & Residence Life under Crystal Henry’s “leadership.” Again during this time, housing also kicked out students who had the credit hours for CCS and UP and placed them into Alexander Hall with no warning or explanation. During the spring 2024 semester, University Pointe had to be shut down due to a mold infestation, thus resulting in those residents having to be moved back on campus to Alexander Hall or off campus to hotels. For the fall 2024 room selection process, students were again emailed a date and computer-generated time slot to select their housing assignment. To be frankly honest, giving time slots to select housing knowing we’re already limited and housing will reach capacity on day 1 of room selection is unfair and puts students who cannot afford to commute, Uber, Lyft, or get private housing at a major disadvantage. My room selection date and time to select my fall 2024 housing was 11:45 AM on the first day of room selection, which was April 17, 2024. I had class that day from 11:00–11:50 AM and had my computer set up to the portal well before my time slot so that when it was time for me to select my room, all I had to do was select, pay, and be set for fall 2024 housing. When it was time for me to select my room, housing was ALREADY AT CAPACITY ON DAY 1. University administration and enrollment management staff are also complicit in this crisis as well. McAllister-Whiteside Hall has been closed for who knows how long, and University Pointe has been closed for two years now. Not once has the current interim president and housing director sat down and mentioned anything about when those dorms will be reopened or when construction will start. Enrollment management and admissions keep accepting all these freshmen knowing there’s not enough space for current students as is. Many schools with this issue have put admission caps or limits on the number of freshmen they can accept due to limited space. If JSU did this when the housing crisis started, it wouldn’t have gotten to this level. With incoming freshman classes only continuing to get bigger, more strain is going to be put on the limited space we do have. I see now why many students transfer to community colleges or PWIs. You rarely hear about these types of issues at those institutions because they fix them before they get out of control. It seems as if you’re not in SGA, on Royal Court, in the Sonic Boom, or play any type of sport, you’re out of luck on housing. JSU and the current administration need to do better.