How to Homestead your Current Room | Hofstra University
How to Homestead your Current Room
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Check List Prior to Participating in the Homesteading Process
• Complete and Submit an updated housing application for Fall 2025.
• 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.
Can my room be HOMESTEAD?
• Current students living on campus during the Spring semester are eligible to HOMESTEAD the space in their room for the next academic year with the exception of students residing in:
• First-Year only buildings : Netherlands Complex and Stuyvesant Hall.
• Rooms designated for First -Year students in the High rise buildings .
• Rooms and/or buildings that cannot be homestead due to scheduled renovation/capacity changes or other reasons as outlined by the Office of Residence Life.
• Students are notified in advance via email from the Office of Residence Life if their current room is not eligible to be homestead.
Will Residents automatically keep their roommates and suitemates?
High Rise Towers
• No. Homesteading their own space does not guarantee students will keep their roommates or suitemates.
• If only one roommate homesteads their space, only that student will reserve a spot for the next academic year.
• Students can homestead their own space or both their own and their roommate's space by forming a roommate group on the housing application.
Non-homesteaded spaces will be available for selection during the General Room Selection Process.
Will Residents automatically keep their roommates and suitemates?
Suite-Style Housing
• 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.
• Any non-homesteaded spaces will be available during the General Room Selection Process.
Non-homesteaded spaces will be available for selection during the General Room Selection Process.
Pull-In Process
• If a student is aware that there will be a vacancy in their room for the upcoming year, they will have the opportunity to “pull - in” another student that they are not currently roommates with.
• In order to “pull -in” a roommate, an available space MUST exist in the room.
• The student being “pulled - in” must have a completed Housing Application AND have accepted the roommate request/invite from the student who is “pulling” them in prior to this process.
• Commuting, Study Abroad and New Students can be pulled - in to open spaces as long as they have:
• Paid the required $300 Housing Deposit and an Enrollment fee if new to Hofstra.
• Have completed a Housing Application and accepted a roommate request.
How to Homestead Your Room
Access your Housing Application by logging onto my.Hofstra.edu
Under Student Services, Click on the Residence Life menu, and then select Residence Life Room Application(for the term which you are applying) or click on “my apps” and click on the Housing Icon
• Click on “Complete your Housing Application”
• Select the term for which you are applying and click on “Continue”.
How to Homestead Your Room
If you are not automatically directed to it from the side bar, click on the “Homesteading” page.
• If your room is available to be Homestead, you will see your current room assignment with the option to either “Select” your room or “Skip Renewal”.
How to Homestead Your Room
• If your room is NOT eligible to be homestead, you will NOT see your current room assignment appear. Instead, the reason indicating why your room cannot be homestead will be displayed.
• Examples include:
• Your classification does not match the classification required for the room.
• Your profiles do not match the profiles required for the room.
• Your gender (biological sex) does not match the gender assigned to this room.
• Your current room is not available for renewal (as a reminder students are notified in advance if their space is not eligible to be homestead).
How to Homestead Your Room
IF YOUR ROOM IS ELIGIBLE TO HOMSTEAD, YOU CAN:
• Click on “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 Choose NOT to Homestead
• 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. Click on “Skip Renewal” to proceed WITHOUT HOMESTEADING your current space. To review Important Room Selection Dates, click on https://www.hofstra.edu/residence -life/housing-selection-returning-residents.html
Selecting a Room with a Roommate
Confirmation
• BEFORE 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 room.
