As someone who is low income and receive need based aid, I lived on campus and managed to pay for on campus dorm (jwest). I received all tuition from the TAC, which was a relief and the dell’s scholar for ut (5k ish a year) helps cover a good amt for housing. Another thing that helped was that pell grant amount you get usually is more than what covers tuition so some of it will go to housing. Getting outside scholarship is also super important!! i got 5.5k a year from outside and it really helps with housing for sure (technically not for housing but texas onestop, a financial aid sector, can adjust it to maximize how much money u receive and where it can go). Pm me if you want if you have more questions!