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Is the USI only a talking shop?

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  • 08-03-2005 10:32am
    #1
    D'Peoples Voice
    Registered Users Posts: 1,698 ✭✭✭


    What have they done for student accommodation in recent years?
    Check out their website! http://www.usi.ie/usi/asp/section.asp?s=2

    A few years ago, the USI was criticising the government for not bringing more accommodation on stream sooner for students.
    Although the number of houses for letting has increased over the past year or two, the quality of many of them leaves a lot to be desired.
    The Private Residential Tenancies Board was introduced by the government last year to help enforce minimum standards in houses that are let, and to act as an arbitrageur where landlords and their tenants reach a disagreement such as eviction because the landlord wants a new tenant who will pay more or such as refusal by the landlord to return people’s deposit.

    The USI should be encouraging all their members to ensure that their landlord is a member of the Private Residential Tenancies Board,
    http://www.environ.ie/DOEI/DOEIPol.nsf/wvNavView/Housing+Policy?OpenDocument&Lang=#16
    the Dept of Social Welfare are already doing this for their welfare claimants.

    If the USI get their members to verify their landlords are members, then landlords will have to bring up the standard of accommodation to a reasonable level and the stories of students being robbed blind by landlords may be a thing of the past.
    But will the USI encourage their members to do this? The answer lies in your belief in whether or not the USI are serious about your housing needs!


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    MorningStar
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    Not exactly sure what you want here. The changes to the law benifit every person renting regardless of whether they are a student or not.
    If anyperson is naive enough to rent from a non-registerd landlord I think it is fair enough. If you call into to any USI office they tell you what to look out for.

    The amount of additional student accomadation built in the last 5 years is huge as is the general private market. USI appaer to have done a good job.

    No longer a student but I can see the changes in the market as a landlord.


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