Private student accommodation - the start of a problem?

[Brainaddict]

Also I honestly don't give a fuck about students being overcharged, what concerns me is local people either being forced out of their communities or enduring big rent increases because of the student market.

Seems a bit narrow. For starters they are linked - if students manage to get lower rent, the sector becomes less profitable, so the interests of students and local people happen to be aligned to some extent. But also the disciplining of the higher-educated section of the working class through debt should be concerning to everyone, no?

 

[SpookyFrank]

Seems a bit narrow. For starters they are linked - if students manage to get lower rent, the sector becomes less profitable, so the interests of students and local people happen to be aligned to some extent. But also the disciplining of the higher-educated section of the working class through debt should be concerning to everyone, no?

I agree with all this in theory, in practice I'm just sick of braying teenagers cluttering up my city.

 

[Idaho]

Seems a bit narrow. For starters they are linked - if students manage to get lower rent, the sector becomes less profitable, so the interests of students and local people happen to be aligned to some extent. But also the disciplining of the higher-educated section of the working class through debt should be concerning to everyone, no?

The popularity/salience of a them and us always trumps sensible thinking.

 

[Idaho]

I lived in an area which was an unhappy combination of families and student hmos. Lived next door to one. Typical penny pinching student landlord. He was using it as his pension.

Exeter then got a rush of student accommodation built and he struggled to fill his house - as did many on the street. The result was student landlords either selling up or switching to normal rental. Area improved. More space to park, less rubbish and less noise.