Despite a continuous rise in the number of incoming freshmen each year, University Housing and off-campus-living alternative University Towers have no plans for additional housing.

“We’ve been able to accommodate anyone who has requested housing in the past few years,” Susan Grant, director of University Housing, said. According to Grant, University Housing currently houses 3,752 freshmen — 267 more freshmen than last year.

“We opened in the fall close to being full, which is good,” Grant said.

While the residences halls are usually full for the fall semester, Grant said there is typically enough space in the spring semester to house incoming students and resolve room change requests. Although housing is almost at full capacity, Grant feels there is no need for additional residence halls on campus, or residence halls explicitly for freshmen.

“Our latest addition to housing would be Wolf Village, which is strictly for upperclassmen, but we really don’t have all-freshmen buildings,” she said. “And it would not be our intention to build housing for one class of students because the mixture of students is what helps everyone succeed.” Clayton Hayer, general manager of University Towers, also said his facility is full but has no plans of building additional off-campus housing.

“We had been talking about building another facility on the ValPark land, but we are not really considering it right now,” Hayer said.

Hayer admits University Towers currently holds more freshmen than in previous years, but only because more upperclassmen have moved out due to the building of several apartment complexes in the past three to four years.

Hayer also said University Towers will continue to put money back into the building for renovations and keep the facility up-to-date, “but as far as building anything on our Raleigh market, that’s not anything we have on our plate.”

Erin Curran, a freshman in communication and political science, said she agrees that additional housing is unnecessary.

“They say dorms are full, but I was able to transfer rooms so easily,” Curran said. “They even had three different room choices for me, and I know of more available rooms, so I’m not sure if it’s as full as they say it is.”

Curran also stated that, while she doesn’t think the University needs to consider making more housing available, it should resolve current issues with the residence halls.

“I’d like to see them improve on the current dorms they have instead of building more dorms,” she said.

According to Grant, while the University is not considering building additional housing facilities to prepare for larger incoming classes, University Housing is conducting a study on additional housing.

“Since we are currently undergoing our study on additional housing, we will be able to talk more once we get the results back,” Grant said.