Turns out this is a personal lifestyle choice as his parents have actually paid for a room for him.<p>Meanwhile, there really are homeless students in the US.<p><i>"In 2009, 47,204 college students applying for financial aid checked a box that identified themselves as homeless."</i> <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/03/homeless-college-students_1_n_802844.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/03/homeless-college-st...</a><p><i>"I have had homeless students before. In fact, when the recession began to rear its ugly head the number of students in our high school who lived in shelters grew and grew and grew... Whenever I found out that a student was homeless, the puzzle pieces suddenly fit together -- the fatigue, the sudden weight loss, the increasingly dirtiness of their clothing or unkempt elements of their personal self. "Oh..." I would think, "That's what's going on.""</i> <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lori-ungemah/homeless-in-college_b_2271926.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lori-ungemah/homeless-in-colle...</a><p>Of course, there are also homeless people who aren't even students trying to live on campus too.<p><i>"The library at Cambridge University's largest college has been playing host to a mysterious user with a collection of supermarket bags, vague claims of doing a doctorate on religion and a habit of dozing off. The unexpected visitor was the subject of speculation at St John's College over several weeks, according to students, before he was asked to leave by staff after failing to show that he was entitled to use the library or the college's other ancient premises."</i> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2013/feb/27/homeless-man-cambridge-library-weeks" rel="nofollow">http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2013/feb/27/homeless-man...</a>