How to Homestead Your Current Room
Spring 2026
Complete and Submit an updated housing application for Fall 2026
Create my roommate group if living in a multi-occupancy room
Ensure my requested roommate has submitted their application and accepted my roommate request
Log back into my housing application when the homesteading process begins to homestead my space
All Spring semester active resident students may homestead their room for the next academic year except those in:
• First-Year–only buildings: Netherlands Complex, Stuyvesant Hall
• First-Year rooms in High-Rise buildings
• Rooms/buildings affected by renovations or capacity changes
Triple rooms in C2, Constitution, Estabrook, and Vander Poel
Double rooms converting to lounges (Constitution Hall)
*Residence Life will notify students via email if their room is ineligible for homesteading*
Can residents automatically retain their current roommates for the following academic year?
• No. Homesteading their own space does not guarantee students will keep their roommates.
• If only one roommate homesteads, only that student will reserve a spot for the next academic year
• Each student must homestead their own space or can homestead their own and their roommate's space by forming a roommate group on the housing application
• Spaces that are not homesteaded will be available for selection during the General Room Selection Process
Can residents automatically retain their current roommates and suitemates the following academic year?
• No. However, if all roommates and suitemates homestead their spaces, they will stay together for the next academic year
• Students in suite-style housing cannot homestead their suitemates' spaces. Each suitemate must homestead their own space or both their own and their roommate's space by forming a roommate group on the housing application
• Spaces that are not homestead will be available for selection during the General Room Selection Process
If a student knows there will be a vacancy in their room, they can "pull-in" another student, provided an available space exists
The student being "pulled-in" must have a completed Housing Application and accepted the roommate request from the student pulling them in
Commuting, Study Abroad, and New Students can be pulled-in if they have:
1. Paid the $300 Housing Deposit and Enrollment fee (if new to Hofstra)
2. Completed a Housing Application and accepted the roommate request
Click on “Complete your Housing Application”
Select the term for which you are applying and click
If you are not automatically directed to it from the side bar, click on the “Homesteading” page
If your room is available to Homestead, you will see your current room assignment wit the option to either “Select” your room or “Skip Renewal”
If your room is NOT eligible, you will NOT see your current room assignment appear. Instead, the reason indicating why your room cannot be homestead will Your classification does not match the classification required for the room.
Your profiles do not match the profiles required for
Your gender (biological sex) does not match the gender assigned to this room.
Your current room is not available for renewal
“Select” to proceed with Homesteading your current space. Verify the building and room number shown is accurate prior to clicking on the “Select” button. If you choose to homestead your space, once you click the “Select” button, you will have the ability to “Select ”your “Bed” from the drop-down menu
• Verify the building, floor and room number is accurate and there is a space available
• Click on “Sleep/Study w/out toilet/Bath” then on “Assign Beds”
If you do not wish to homestead your space, you can be “Pulled In” to another room during the Homesteading Process or participate in the General Selection Process during your allotted time.
“Skip Renewal” to WITHOUT HOMESTEADING your current
you click on the “Save and Continue” button, be sure you confirm the building, floor and room number as this will be your housing assignment for the next academic year. Once confirmed, click on the “Save and Continue” button. You have now successfully HOMESTEAD your room!
Students will receive an email to their Hofstra Pride account confirming they Homestead their
