{"id":30697,"date":"2016-10-19T16:55:12","date_gmt":"2016-10-19T09:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/why-i-refuse-to-pay-my-university-rent\/"},"modified":"2016-10-19T16:59:26","modified_gmt":"2016-10-19T09:59:26","slug":"why-i-refuse-to-pay-my-university-rent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/why-i-refuse-to-pay-my-university-rent\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I refuse to pay my university rent"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nOverpriced accommodation is changing student life for the worse \u2013 so I\u2019ve gone on strikeLondon is home to some of the UK\u2019s highest-ranking universities, and yet it is unaccessible to so many students. Last academic year, university rent averaged \u00a3226 per week in the capital, compared to \u00a3134 across the rest of the UK. And this accommodation isn\u2019t always the sanitised paradise advertised in glossy prospectuses.For me and many others, it couldn\u2019t have been any more different. Rather than feeling at home, I felt alienated from those around me. On top of the extortionate rent prices \u2013 which even my university, UCL, has admitted are bound to be unaffordable \u2013 students at the uni have found that rat infestations and loud building work made it impossible for them to study. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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