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Student accommodation in the crisis

  • 30-03-2020 7:40pm
    #1
    Purple Mountain
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    Just wondering now with 3rd level campuses shut and people all working on online platforms, have all the students left their college accommodation?
    Are landlords still looking for payment until the end of the academic year?

    To thine own self be true



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  • #2
    Runaways
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    Purple Mountain wrote: »
    Just wondering now with 3rd level campuses shut and people all working on online platforms, have all the students left their college accommodation?
    Are landlords still looking for payment until the end of the academic year?

    I know trinity kicked out all their student tenants from their accommodations last month but I did wonder about the various privately owned student accommodations Around the city.

    Doesn’t seem to have affected the ones near me but a great many were foreign students and went home off their own bat not having been instructed to.
    You’d wonder what it means for the academic year in terms of exams and the next term.


  • #3
    osarusan
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    UL still has some students on campus accommodation I believe. A lack of clarity over if and when university will resume has caused some to stay, but as it becomes clear that there won't be any more lectures or traditional exams, more and more are going home.


  • #4
    Purple Mountain
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    Would love to know about the private rented sector or the family digs.
    I'd say most Irish students have gone to their home place but curious if landlords are letting them away with rent owed?

    To thine own self be true



  • #5
    julyjane
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    one of my offspring has a room in privately owned student accommodation and came home around St Patrick's day but all her stuff is still there so the room is hers til the 31st of May. I paid for the whole year upfront including prepaid electricity so I might get some of that refunded and the deposit seeing as they won't be there to wreck the place. if the pubs open up before the end of May then maybe they'll make use of it for a few nights out on the town seeing as the grant money is piling up in the bank now and she has nothing to spend it on because she's here eating us out of house and home!


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