Iowa State is one school that doesn’t have an enrollment problem but the dorms are bursting at the seams.

Anthony Capps of the Ames Tribune reports.

University prepares living space for a near-capacity crowd of students

For the second year, Iowa State University housing is heading into the fall at near full capacity.

With not enough housing on campus, it’s lead to another year of the ISU department of residence seeking out places in Ames for students to live and still be a part of university life.

This year, the department of residence leased more buildings in west Ames from Jensen Property Management, which it first leased from in fall 2013.

The buildings on Maricopa Drive were renewed for another one-year lease and the residences on Walton Drive were added for $2.9 million — an increase from the $1 million in its first year. The university also leases the Legacy building in Campustown for $1.7 million.

This is despite the fact that six additional buildings were built at Frederiksen Court, which added 720 new beds, during the past year.

In the residence halls, each floor — or house — has a den for house meetings and is the place for the residents to socialize outside of their rooms. But for the last few years, they’ve been converted into temporary residences.

A few years back, only some dens were used to house 126 students, but this year all 120 dens on campus are used to house more than 400 students. The dens, however, are temporary. With students studying abroad, internships, graduations, transfers and academic dismissals, those students will be assigned a permanent room by the end of fall semester — and usually in the same house they’re currently living.

Some relief is coming to Iowa State but it is still a couple years away.

Plans for a new $50 million residence hall were approved by the Board of Regents, which governs the state’s public universities, at its meeting earlier this year.