CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (WCIA) — Thousands of University of Illinois families descended on campus Wednesday as students started to move into their dorms for the upcoming school year.

More than 6,000 students have moved into their new rooms so far; 250 of them will be placed in temporary housing.

“Temporary housing means students are paying half what they would normally pay,” said University Housing Marketing Associate Director Christ Axtman-Barker. “There are more students in those rooms because they are temporarily converted study lounges.”

Four to six people will live in each makeshift dorm room, previously study lounges, for the foreseeable future. The rooms will have all the same furniture as a normal dorm room: bed, desk and dresser.

Illinois Housing said there is a plan in place to assess where the students will go after temporary spaces; it’s a process that will begin after the tenth day of classes.

“We do a count, we make sure everyone shows up who was meant to show up, and normally we have some number of students who do not, for whatever reason,” Axtman-Barker said. “Then we can start moving folks from temporary housing into those units that we have now confirmed are empty.”

Housing mentioned there’s a long term plan to mitigate further housing shortages in the future.

“We are working on the construction of a new residence hall,” said Axtman-Barker.

Housing said they don’t have an exact timeline for when students will be moved out of temporary housing and they do not expect any students to live there for a full semester.

They added they are working on architectural plans for the new residence hall, and don’t have a location yet.