How to Homestead Your Room

1. How to Homestead your
Current Room
DIVISION OF STUDENT ENROLLMENT, ENGAGEMENT, AND SUCCESS
RESIDENCE LIFE

2. Can my room be HOMESTEAD?
• Current students living on campus during the Spring semester are eligible to
HOMESTEAD the space in their room for the next academic year with the
exception of students residing in:
• First-Year only buildings: Netherlands Complex and Stuyvesant Hall.
• Rooms designated for First-Year students in the High rise buildings.
• Rooms and/or buildings that cannot be homestead due to scheduled
renovation/capacity changes or other reasons as outlined by the Office of
Residence Life.
• Students are notified in advance via email from the Office of Residence Life if
their current room is not eligible to be homestead.

3. If I Homestead my room, will I automatically
keep my roommates and suitemates?
• Each student living in a room MUST homestead their own space.
• IF ALL current roommates and suitemates homestead their own space within the
room, they will remain roommates and suitemates for the upcoming academic
year.
• If only one roommate homesteads their space within their room, then ONLY that
student will reserve a spot in the room for the upcoming academic year.
• All spaces that are not homestead, will be made available for ANYONE to select
during the Pull-In and General Room Selection Process.

4. How to Homestead Your Room
• Access your Housing Application by logging onto my.Hofstra.edu
• Under Student Services, Click on the Residence Life menu, and then select Residence Life Room
Application(for the term which you are applying) or click on “my apps” and click on the Housing Icon.

5. • Click on “Complete your Housing Application”
• Select the term for which you are applying and click on “Continue”.

6. How to Homestead Your Room
From the side bar, click on the “Homesteading” page, if you are not automatically
directed to it.
• If a students room is available to be Homestead, they will see their current room
assignment with option to either “Select” their room or “Skip Renewal”.

7. How to Homestead Your Room
• If a students room is NOT available to homestead, they will NOT see their current room
assignment appear. Instead, a reason will appear indicating why their current room assignment
cannot be homestead.
• Examples include:
• Your classification does not match the classification required for the room.
• Your profiles do not match the profiles required for the room.
• Your gender (biological sex) does not match the gender assigned to this room.
• Your current room is not available for renewal.
EXAMPLE

8. How to Homestead Your Room
IF YOUR ROOM IS ELIGIBLE TO HOMSTEAD, A STUDENT CAN:
• Click on “Select” to proceed with Homesteading your current space. Verify the building and room number
shown is accurate prior to clicking on the “Select” button.
• Click on “Skip Renewal” to proceed WITHOUT HOMESTEADING your current space.
• If you do not wish to homestead your space, you can be “Pulled In” to another room during the “Pull-In” time
period or participate in the General Selection Process during your allotted time. Click on
https://www.hofstra.edu/residence-life/housing-selection-returning-residents.html for Important Room
Selection Dates.

9. How to Homestead Your Room
• If you choose to homestead your space, once you click on the “Select” button, you will have the ability to
“Select ”your “Bed” from the drop down menu.
• Verify the building, floor and room number is accurate and there is a space available.
• Click on “Sleep/Study w/out toilet/Bath” then on “Assign Beds”.

10. Confirmation
• BEFORE you click on the “Save and Continue” button, be sure you confirm the building, floor and room number as
this will be your housing assignment for the next academic year.
• Once confirmed, click on the “Save and Continue” button. You have now successfully HOMESTEAD your room!
• Students will receive an email to their Hofstra Pride account confirming they Homestead their room.

11. Email Confirmation

12. Application Summary

13. Pulling in a Roommate
• After a student homesteads their space in the room, they will have the opportunity to “pull-in” another
student if a vacant space exists in their room on the Pull-In Process date.
• If you know you will be “pulling in” a roommate, please ensure you complete the “Roommate Selection
Page” on the Housing Application. The student Homesteading will need to send a “Roommate
Request/Invite” to the student they would like to Pull-In and the student receiving the request will need to
accept the Request/Invite for a successful Pull-In.
• It is highly recommended that you form your roommate group PRIOR to the Pull-In Process date to ensure
a smooth Pull-In.