@Zahavasdad
OOT Most Orthodox synagogues built after 1950 had school classrooms and many day schools and Yeshivos started in these now empty spaces, paying for utilities but little or no rent.
When I was president of such a shul decades ago, we gladly gladly gave free use of 12 classrooms for a startup Boys High School and Mesifta because it guaranteed we’d have a minyan every weekday.
The Waterbury Yeshiva took over a huge Conservative synagogue building with school wing when the dying congregation merged with a small synagogue in the suburbs.
The Stamford Yeshiva is in the old JCC
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I use to teach a class as an adjunct in a law school that operated in one office building in a corporate park. The school occupied two floors and the rent from the third covered the mortgage and insurance. They were able to charge tuition 1/2 the price of university associated law schools that maintained a full campus and amenities.
Yeshivos need professional business management. The Rosh Yeshiva and volunteer boards are generally not equipped to produce a business plan and run the institutions as they should be. The RY and staff should be teaching and tending to the spiritual and educational needs of the students, not spending most of their times trying to raise funds and keep the doors open.