Comments on: Unexpected room shortage leaves undergraduates stranded off campus http://www.nouse.co.uk/2006/02/20/unexpected-room-shortage-leaves-undergraduates-stranded-off-campus/ Award-winning University of York Student Newspaper Fri, 05 Dec 2008 09:42:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Robert MacMahon http://www.nouse.co.uk/2006/02/20/unexpected-room-shortage-leaves-undergraduates-stranded-off-campus/#comment-279 Robert MacMahon Wed, 05 Apr 2006 22:09:44 +0000 http://www.nouse.co.uk/2006/02/20/unexpected-room-shortage-leaves-undergraduates-stranded-off-campus/#comment-279 I do wonder about the statistics quoted. The University's recommended rent in 1997/98 was £39 and for 2006/07 is £55. Whilst these are lower than the actual market rates and do not cover a full ten years, I wonder if private sector rents have doubled in ten years. The suggestion that house prices have only increased by 26% in the last ten years is, to say the least, economical compared to reality. I do wonder about the statistics quoted. The University’s recommended rent in 1997/98 was £39 and for 2006/07 is £55. Whilst these are lower than the actual market rates and do not cover a full ten years, I wonder if private sector rents have doubled in ten years.

The suggestion that house prices have only increased by 26% in the last ten years is, to say the least, economical compared to reality.

]]> By: Isa Smith http://www.nouse.co.uk/2006/02/20/unexpected-room-shortage-leaves-undergraduates-stranded-off-campus/#comment-222 Isa Smith Fri, 10 Mar 2006 13:05:15 +0000 http://www.nouse.co.uk/2006/02/20/unexpected-room-shortage-leaves-undergraduates-stranded-off-campus/#comment-222 It's absolutely ridiculous. I'm on a years placement, with no chance of being able to move in with friends (as they're all graduating next year)... so I'm left with the option of moving in with people I don't know, or renting a flat on my own. Either way my results will suffer - I'll either be working part time for more hours than i should, or fighting with a bunch of equally disgruntled people who I don't really know. The uni should make more of an effort to arrange housing for people with nowhere to live - I'm not suggesting that they subsidise us, but it'd be nice to have a little help just FINDING somewhere :-( It’s absolutely ridiculous. I’m on a years placement, with no chance of being able to move in with friends (as they’re all graduating next year)… so I’m left with the option of moving in with people I don’t know, or renting a flat on my own. Either way my results will suffer - I’ll either be working part time for more hours than i should, or fighting with a bunch of equally disgruntled people who I don’t really know.

The uni should make more of an effort to arrange housing for people with nowhere to live - I’m not suggesting that they subsidise us, but it’d be nice to have a little help just FINDING somewhere :-(

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