I have a niece who is currently a junior in college and plans to go to law school. Wayne State and U of D Mercy are two of the schools she is considering. When I was her age in the early 1990s, cheap student housing in those areas was a given. Now it seems that all of those apartments that used to rent for three hundred bucks a month are now luxury lofts that my niece won't be able to afford until AFTER she gets her law degree [[and, even then, only if she doesn't have a ton of student loans to pay off).

So where do the students live now? I know WSU has more on-campus housing than they did back in the day, but can anyone suggest other alternatives?