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At my university, I would say chapters without a house were at a competitive disadvantage at recruitment, based on the perspectives of the PNMs and their unsubstantiated view that house=status. I observed a previously un-housed chapter move into their chapter house and was interested to see how the campus's overall perception of them rose, as well as their increase in numbers and, in-turn, how their new status shifted the rest of the sororities. ZTAngel, would you agree?

Anyway... My chapter is housed. Although there are nearly 200 members, only 32 live-in. The chapter president is expected to share a room with another sister, and our local by-laws specify who must live-in (this includes the exec board and other key officers.) In cases where there is too large an interest in living in the "mandatory live in spots have filled" GPA and other chapter offices are used as a tie-breaker.

Because there are so many members who can't live in the house due to lack of bedroom space, many members do tend to block out apartment buildings, rent houses together or apartments. It isn't unsual to drive by an apartment complex and see various sorority letters spelled out in Christmas lights from the balconies!

One thing I like about ADPi House Corp (I'm not sure-- maybe all NPC House Corp is like this)-- you don't need to have a house or a suite to have a house corp.