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As a current corporation board dealing with this I can tell you what I'm seeing on our campus. Chapters are doing what they can to reduce capacity, eliminating some/all of their porches, letting go of annexes, negotiating a lower capacity with the chapter, one chapter just moved into a new facility with a capacity of about half of the largest facilities.
Empty bed fees/special assessments are not uncommon. Some chapters charge live-outs a higher amount, but it's a balancing act - too high and the members (threaten to) drop, to low and there's no incentive to live-in.
While largest chapter plus (we were able to do just +1 this fall) works on the surface, NPC needs to realize it's not a one size fits all situation. We're one of 2 campuses where our new members move in on bid day; this results in a frantic scramble of COB starting on bid day trying to pick up new members before they're locked into their dorm contracts. And since the PNMs generally know everyone will be participating in COB we have a lot of withdrawals from formal recruitment when they don't get invited back to their favorites because "I can just join my favorite through COB".
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