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Students have said the issues have been persistent for years and are long overdue. They have organized in tents outside of campus and in sleeping bags inside the campus buildings.
A tent encampment remains Monday at Howard University, the historically Black college in Washington, D.C., as several dozen students have forgone their dormitories to protest what they describe as unlivable housing conditions, claiming mold, insects and rodents have infested living quarters.
The HBCU has released a statement.
YinYang/iStock (WASHINGTON, D.C.) -- Dozens of Howard University students are sleeping outdoors in a tent encampment on campus grounds to protest what they describe as "poor" and "unlivable" conditions in the college dormitories. Students told ABC News that portions of the university living quarters have mold and insect and rodent infestations, as well as leaky ceilings and flooding -- all of which they say put their health at risk. Lamiya Murray, an 18-year-old freshman currently living in one of the tents, believes the mold that she said she spotted in her dorm room was r...
YinYang/iStock (WASHINGTON, D.C.) -- Dozens of Howard University students are sleeping outdoors in a tent encampment on campus grounds to protest what they