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July 2, 2025

Wealthy families are buying homes to get in-state tuition at Texas universities

By: Greta Díaz González Vázquez

Texas lets out-of-state students buy homes to get in-state tuition. KUT’s Audrey McGlinchy says the law has fed a growing industry of families buying condos in cash, holding onto them for a couple years and then selling to the next out-of-state family.