Student Rent Strikes Due to lack of En-suite Facilities

missbiggles1

stator wrote: »

It may mean that the toilet facilities are shared by all the bedsits and I wouldn't fancy that. It's ok if you share a bathroom with a few other people but I wouldn't want communal toilets and showers where you have lots of stalls in the same room.
Students are being screwed over with a life-time of debt. They should get habitable facilities and not some kind of eastern european backpacking lodge.

Lots of showers and loos in student flats are shared by all the flatmates but individually accessed. I can't see anything wrong with that.

CLAPTON

stator wrote: »

It may mean that the toilet facilities are shared by all the bedsits and I wouldn't fancy that. It's ok if you share a bathroom with a few other people but I wouldn't want communal toilets and showers where you have lots of stalls in the same room.
Students are being screwed over with a life-time of debt. They should get habitable facilities and not some kind of eastern european backpacking lodge.

One can see how the public/private school boys rise to the top

Generali

PasturesNew wrote: »

My mum's care home fees were MUCH higher than that.... room 7'x10' and no en-suite.

They don't know they're born.

I've very rarely encountered an en-suite in any place I've lived/stayed either. They're a luxury. I've no en-suite here/now.

I suspect that your mum had someone to feed, clean and dress her if needed plus 24 hour care facilities. Bit different to uni.

Having been back to my old uni earlier this year I'd say part of the problem is that there is a huge chunk of old housing (like my halls) which are spartan at best (shared showers and toilets, poor, insanitary cooking facilities) which rents at a fairly small discount to some excellent newer facilities. If you compare the new with the old, the old is a bit of a rip-off quite frankly and, at my uni anyway, was introduced to sell training and conferences to the corporate market outside of term time.

The whole corporate side of universities has gotten a bit out of hand in my opinion. There is this great dash to make money and I think it is murky at best who is benefitting and who should be benefitting. It seemed a bit mad to me to be putting up student accommodation that wasn't really designed to benefit students!

CLAPTON

gosh, how did all those brilliant scholars manage to work in places like Cambridge and Oxford?
Stone staircases : wcs / showers at the foot of the staircase or even have to walk across the quadrant.

wymondham

surely its best if they are used to living in ****holes as that is what most will be able to afford when they enter the real world... I think it's 'character building' !!

westernpromise

Anyone who thinks the disappearance of BTL landlords from the rental market will be a good thing should read this article and reflect on this live example of what happens when corporates take over. It gets worse and it costs more.

Any complaints about this outcome should be directed to Labour chancellor George Osborne.

Out,_Vile_Jelly

High quality student accommodation (ie with en-suites) is very profitable for universities, as it can be let for conferences/academic visitors during holidays. The problem is when they are still charging high prices for the older, shoddier stuff.

chewmylegoff

thequant wrote: »

Then they leave Uni, expecting to live in penthouse apartments in central London.

And then you expect them to pay ever increasing taxes and work until they are 75 to fund the rising cost of healthcare and pensions which has been deferred to their generation by the preceding ones.

Seems like everyone has unrealistic expectations...

System

thequant wrote: »

In my university not one of the rooms had en-suite facilities, did i go to a !!!! uni ? ?

We were lucky to have a bathroom on the same staircase. The unlucky ones had to cross the court in dressing gowns in all weathers to use the antiquated facilities in the basement of another stairs.

setmefree2

missbiggles1 wrote: »

However, one of the reasons student rents have gone through the roof is because students have such unrealistic expectations of accommodation and won't accept what was considered nomal in the past.

I don't think it's unrealistic to want good quality accommodation. And it's not just students who want this, parents want good quality accommodation for their kids too (and let's be honest it's us who are paying). We've paid £400 to £500 per month for our kids accommodation. For that they've had nice digs with a modern kitchen (all mod cons including a dryer), bathroom, etc.

I don't want my kids living in a dump.