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My freshman year I rushed at a school with a mid-sized greek life in an urban area where some sororities were housed and some weren't. Some of the chapters that weren't housed had a floor in a particular dorm for them to live in if they wanted, but not everyone did that, either. Having a house helped chapters with name recognition, and I remember before rushing thinking it didn't make sense to pay the same amount in dues for a chapter without a house as a chapter with a house. When I went through recruitment, I got a bid to a chapter without a house, but I didn't care that much because I had fallen in love with the chapter itself. That being said, later that year a chapter that was housed lost their house, and my chapter got to move into it over the summer. Once I could see recruitment from the other side, and had friends who were on Panhel/were rho gams, I noticed there was a lot of politics around having a house which is why it was such a big deal on my campus. Chapter houses weren't owned by the chapters themselves, but in contract with the university, so if you got in trouble, you could lose your house, and it would be very obvious to PNMs what chapters were in good standing with the university. So there definitely are other campuses where sororities are both housed and unhoused, but the politics and climate surrounding housing at each campus is different, so I would hesitate to assert too much expertise on something when it's very nuanced. This applies to all houses renting at IU too, since people on here act like they're the head of the housing board for the nationals of any given chapter, saying "XYZ will have to give up their house this year" "ABC gets to keep their house for 100 years" when it's so much more complicated than that, and none of us really know.