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We ran into a similiar situation when I was a sophmore in my chapter. And had several emergency meetings to resolve the issue. Our chapter house rooms are owned by the school, we rent the rest. Its odd - its "your house", but not really.
Here is what we did...
first we held a meeting to see if anyone would give up their current leases - girls would do whatever to help find another roommate to sublease in her place/chapter would pay the apartment fees for subleasing.
Any girl in the house could buy out an entire room to live by herself (two girls per room was standard)
Or we were forced to have nonmembers move in. Which would have been very bad - since we owned some much of the extras in the house and letters everywhere.
What ended up happening ... many girls gave up leases to move in... people helped find others to fill their leases. One girl bought out an entire room. Thats year problem solved.
To avoid the situation in the future first a mandatory requirement that you are required to live in the house one year was adopted. This was told to girls rushing up front, but at the same time we talked up living in the house big time so that girls would want to live their freshman year.
Second a lottery system was done up to make things fair. First everyone wishing to move in could sign a contract, second the lottery was done - if you had not lived in the house and were younger class you had a better chance to having your name drawn, etc. Very unlikely if you were older/lived in the house before that you were name would be chosen.
Yes, we had girls drop out instead of living in the house, but honestly if you didn't want to live in the house just because then why were you in the sorority in the first place.
For the rest of the time I was there things worked out - honestly I do not know how the housing situation has been since.
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