A Crisis of Affordability? | Durham Student Housing in 2023/24
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- Опубликовано: 15 фев 2024
- Durham's student housing market is an issue that has caught the attention of the national press.
In this PalTV documentary, we speak to Durham University students and student leaders to discover what their major concerns are on this vital issue.
Using web archives and footage of the October 2023 queues, we reveal how the crisis unfolded this academic year and how the rising affordability of accommodation is now the primary issue confronting the student body at Durham University.
Credits:
Lead Producer: Richard Griffiths
Deputy-Lead Producer: Dylan Rana
Producer: Chris Ray, Karis Rable, Matt Brown, Laetitia Eichinger, Megan Giandinoto, Victoria Abdul-Salam
Presenter: Richard Griffiths
Researcher: Lizzie McBride, Lucy Baldwin
Editor: Dylan Rana, Munin Youngvanich, Richard Griffiths
Camera Operator: Dylan Rana, Amy Warnock, Horatio Wong, Shadow Lau, Samuel Yiu, Chris Ray
Archive Footage: James Tillotson, Matty Grassow
With thanks to: Dan Lonsdale, Don Brookes, Mila Jower, Luke Nash, Emily Doughty and BBC Look North (North East and Cumbria)
Thumbnail: Dylan Rana
Further reading and sources:
Durham’s housing market is “out of control”, 26/10/2023, Palatinate: www.palatinate.org.uk/durhams...
Housing Hub, Durham University: www.durham.ac.uk/colleges-and...
Student Lettings Code of Practice, Durham Uni: www.durham.ac.uk/colleges-and...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england...
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Perhaps our universities should be obligated to have sufficient, low-cost halls of residence to house their entire student body.
Very well put...😊
There are around 22,220 students enrolled in The University of Durham. There were around 6,500 in the 1990s and 15,500 in the early 2010s. The University have and are accepting far too many students, which is pushing up housing costs for the local population.
Thanks to Tony Blair for commercializing university and making his bank friends even more money via interest payments from student loans. University education has been reduced to nothing more than a ponzi scheme
I paid £63 a week for a room (admittedly not very nice) in the viaduct in 2010. I was on the maximum loan and grant. I could not have attended Durham on these prices. This will make Durham an elitist university regardless of what initiatives there are.
This is caused by universities accepting too many students. All they care about is the fees (profit) they get, they don't care about whether there is adequate supply of teachers, accommodation, or facilities. It ultimately results in a worser experience for everyone involved. To young people today don't feel pressured into going to university, I doubt a degree is worth as much as it used to be and the quality of teaching has gotten worse. They are letting in absolutely anyone just so they can rake in those tuition fees.
Problem is now that most people have a degree, you'll find it extremely difficult to compete in the job market without one - unless you're in trades or military etc
True. I go University of Bristol and I discovered that to get on my course as an international you need CCC while home students need A*AA. They pretty much favour internationals because they bring in more money.
@@mohammedfarismakhdoom9867 Absolutely internationals paid double what home students did. £20,000 a year is crazy
@@londonspade5896 This is the reason I went to uni. I'd say it was worth it
in the future, i think vocational skills will be in demand more
I started at Durham in 2016. In 2017 I rented a tiny box room in Gilesgate for 350 per month. It was mouldy and the toilet upstairs ran on a motor, when it failed the water would come through my light fitting. I worked 30hrs at Wetherspoons on top of fulltime study to afford this luxury as my loan wasn't enough. This lack of planning or responsibility from the Uni or Council makes uni unaffordable for people without a silver spoon.
Another thing, where are Durham locals left in all this? Priced out of their own city. It is a crying shame.
Same with Bath in South West
Why bother going to uni and rack up debt? AGI is around the corner 90% of jobs will be gone in five years. Become entreprenuer
Locals will be priced out too. There's a great clip with Aaron Bastani who says when he looked at a landlord forum there was an article basica;;y saying properties are cheap in Durham and you can charge a high amount of rent there. we need do out with the rentier class.
@@thereader6667oh my gosh im in Bath too! ITS DIABOLICAL
@@Sarah-qo9bu I had to leave Bath as I couldn’t continue with the the councils obvious neglect.
Constant traffic/ Public Transport that can’t meet demands/ roadworks or construction from endless projects/ expensive and awful service everywhere you go. The whole city has turned into a corporate scam.
The end of the line for me was when I was walking down Milsom Street and some bloke from a private company stopped me and accused me of dropping litter(I hadn’t) and said I had to him pay £100:00, when I asked him to prove it he then harassed aggressively me until I was able to get away Spoke to the police and council and I was ignored.
Brilliant student journalism
Wealth tax, now!
How is it? As it doesn’t answer questions or provide a solution.
“I hope it gets better”… how?
“A code of conduct” … which is ignored by estate agents, because they can when demand outstrips supply.
I was at Lancaster Uni ( 😄) in the late 80s. We paid £17 per week for 1st and 3rd years, on campus, and I paid £11 a week for a room in a shared house in Morecambe in the second year. The standard of accommodation would be illegal today, but we loved it. The prices in this video are insane, especially when you consider they're on top of tuition fees, which we didn't pay back then. As someone who went to uni to socialise first, get a degree second, I'm just glad I was born when I was.
Me too...went in 1986..full grant and housing paid.!! Thanks.Mrs Thatcher !!
I graduated from Durham in 2016. Back then we paid £80 per week for admittedly a pretty shoddy place in Gilesgate. For others wanting something a bit nicer it was a bit more, but nowhere near as bad as in this video (even though it was already starting to get a bit silly for the north east).
The University PR will tell you its cost of living, but pretty clearly the main reason is a massive increase in new students from 15,500 in 2016 to > 22,000 now. 7,000 + new rooms have not been made in that time so what the hell did they expect. Should have kept Durham as a small university, which was always one of its strengths but guess the extra fee ££ were too great to resist.
Wealth tax, now!
the irony i'd wager most Durham students are middle class and above so it will be so much worse for ordinary people in Durham
Even if they are middle class, their parents/family may be feeling the squeeze as costs soar on their own bills etc, so might not be able to support them financially as much as they used to - if at all. I see it here in the south of England, students can’t go clubbing/to bars/to their hobbies and student societies like they used to as they are cutting back. Many bars they used to frequent are closing. Students being rehoused in towns or cities a train ride away where it’s cheaper
yes of course it impacts on most people, my point was more about the disproportionate impact it will have, like everything else, in this neoliberal gang bang, on those with less resources. I was in Durham just the other day and the coffee shops and restaurants were full of students. 'Feeling the squeeze' vrs having to choose to heat or eat are quite different things. Not blaming the students etc but this neoliberal profit above life on earth system we have.@@Maria7Maria
Even middle classes will suffer with this. You need to come from a very wealthy family for them to be able to afford to support you at Uni. I qualified for the miminal loan but my family couldn't spare the money to assist me at uni.
There is a student property price and a non student property price for renting. Landlords know they can charge what they want to students but not locals...
Is there such a thing as ordinary people in Durham?
The tory party decided it would be a good idea to tax landlords on revenue instead of profit, which is what every other entrepreneurial venture is taxed on in this country. This meant landlords had a paper profit which after paying tax on meant a real loss. No wonder landlords are selling as fast as they can. What did the government expect?
Example for explanation: You sell lemonade. You made £100 and your costs were £70. You've made £30 profit, pay tax on £30. Fine. New rules: You made £100, pay tax on £100, don't care if you had £70 in costs. 40% on £100 is £40. You actually made a profit of £30 but now have to pay £40 in tax = £10 loss.
the situation will get worse if the Renters Reform Bill abolishes fixed annual tenancies. Students will leave properties after 9 months and then the landlord will be compelled to relet to non-students, forever removing student properties from the market. Rents therefore will increase as supply decreases.
The Labour Party thought it was a good idea to increase immigration in the millions (supply and demand) most students believe in open borders.
@@nige5902 Who has been in power the last decade while there has been massively more immigration than ever before? Not that that's the real problem anyway, it's wealth inequality, everything owned by ultra-rich greedy bastards.
@@rmacara i think landlords will put rents up to cover the 3 month gap.
@@nige5902 so the labour party were in charge last year when we had record migration...
I have to ask you believe in free markets, surely the labour market should also be free, especially as it's the most efficient market as every element had a brain. Just look at after 2008 immigration dropped why because jobs were less, last year we had many job vancies so immigration went up. Do you get it now simple supply and demand.
I was a student at Aston Birmingham, 2017-2021.
First year was £120pw, then £148pw, (study abroad), final year £180pw
We had ZERO control over our rent increases - and our student loan stayed the same. I HAD to work both through uni, and immediately after (to pay off debts) as I didn’t have financial support from parents
What’s happening to our student rental sector is a JOKE. This ruins the university experience when you have that sort of expense every month
Innit I paid £130 bills included for a large house, good location and en-suite in my 2nd year (2017) but now I’m doing my PhD (in what’s meant to be a cheaper part of the country) now and it’s £200 a week for a shitty student accommodation with awful service and I’m one of the lucky ones.
There's plenty of housing in Birmingham for around £100pw lol, I'm probably gonna be living there next year
@@fantasypvp selly oak? That’s UOB, I’m talking about Aston
@@UtaHagawi yeah that's what I'm talking about, is Aston a lot worse than that then?
@@fantasypvp yeah selly is a suburb whereas Aston is near the city centre - prices in selly have gone up too though (for somewhere decent) but still far cheaper than central
And you’d rather be in Selly too, it’s a far better atmosphere
Greedy landlords - buy-to-let brigades from London pocketing their vast sale profits to buy up cheaper properties up North - have made the price of renting exorbitant! I can't get my head round £200 pw for student accommodation in Durham! It is frightening. Even bank of mum and dad is getting precarious as cost of living cuts into everyone's living standards except for the very rich!
I have three houses in Manchester as student lets; I live in Beaconsfield. No one has to rent from me; I force no one. My best tenants are all from overseas; clean, erudite and hard working. UK students are just too poor.
That's Manchester mate. You can't compare a tiny university city like Durham to a giant Metropolitan city like Manchester. Your point adds nothing of substance to the the situation other than just stating UK students are poor. @@mikewingert5521
Maybe you should start screaming at people about socialism or something...
@@mikewingert5521lol you just called them too poor. The entitlement
@@mikewingert5521Average sociopathic landlord. I hope the mortgage rates crush you.
when i went to uni, it was all free, no money to pay fir anything, the govt gave us £500 per term for living expenses and we still moaned about it.
how these poor kids cope is beyond me
This is the most important life lesson they will get from uni. Life after will be dire
It is if you think about it. These students are finding out the No. 1 issue they will face in Adult life in England is they will not have any housing to live in.
Durham uni students are among the poshest in the country, they will not have it tough!
Wealth tax, now!
Nope - life is what you make it. Stay positive, work hard, keep your wits about you and you can have a very good life. Stop whining and think about the freedom you have to make these choices, given to you by the greatest generation, many of whom either gave their lives or had it ten times worse than this so people can freely whinge about how tough it is now.
@@JohnSmith-gy8rc Oh, so the Jews who died in the gas chamber were just "whinging"? Or, is it really that our environment actually affects us? Either you think the Jews murdered by the Nazis must take responsibility for being killed, or you have to admit that environment has impact on us
1. Make sure you're not going to Uni for a useless degree (90% are a complete waste of time and money). Research thoroughly, and ask 'is this teaching me specific, in demand, high paying skills?'
2. If you are, pivot to the trades or work part time and teach yourself with online resources / prove your ability to evidence and try to leverage that to get your foot in the door.
It's not worth it, and even for fields where it is like Law / Accounting - many of those are going to be choked out by Ai very soon. Dangerous times.
This.
I don't think it is stated enough that 90% of University courses now are just a money pit and are not worth their time or money. Since the University system became a "for profit" system there has been a massive explosion of useless degrees which are a waste of time for 90% of people.
Both law and accounting now have apprenticeships that lead to full qualification.
In 1998 my room in a student house that I rented cost me then £34, second year in 99 I was EXTREMELY lucky and found a room above a newsagent that cost me no lie £15! It was a dump mould on walls, paint faded bad cracks on walls but clean and a new bed. A bit of a walk to Uni but I was young and fit nothing like how I am now in my mid 40s. Feel so sorry for the younguns trying to find accommodation my daughter god willing will be same position as you if no changes happen in a few years but sadly I think it will only become worse...
I know it is not the perfect solution but given the costs I would think seriously about studying at a local university and staying at home
Not everyone lives close to a good university though. Staying home may mean coming down a lot in the league tables or perhaps the local uni is too high ranking and it’s unlikely you would gain a place. Staying local is definitely more common though now.
I feel sorry for students today. It’s alright the University claiming there’s enough accommodation, but clearly there isn’t enough AFFORDABLE accommodation as this video highlights.
In 1994, I lived in Bowburn at £28pw, and a town center room was an unpalatable £40pw. Different world, easier times. I also managed to make a small profit on my student grant. Back then, only about half of students had to live out for only 1 year, the others got three years of college accommodation. If these days students only get to live in for 1 year, that sort of breaks the college tradition IMHO, and probably explains the squeeze on rooms.
Edit - My old house in Bowburn is currently for sale for 80K with four ready-to-rent bedrooms. Bowburn is.... OK.
This is stupid, because across County Durham rents are affordable compared to other parts of the country and bus routes exist to Durham city centre. Students perhaps want the idyllic lifestyle of living in old Durham rather than practical living.
They do, that's true, but there probaly aren't student HMOs in those other places. Lack of demand for them = lack of supply.
@@seancrowe3353 check rightmove, choose Durham, 3 mile radius (further if you wish), plenty £500pm rentals, yes students might have to live next to regular people rather than in a student neighbourhood and that would include behaving themselves.
Media don't let that get in the way of a £200pw rent crisis story.
@@seancrowe3353 plenty on rightmove, with 3 mile radius of the city, for £500pm and that's a whole house that you could share with at least 1 friend.
I graduated in 2019 and paid £115 a week for a house 10 min walk from the BB. Can’t believe how much it’s changed
Keep in mind some of these properties will have been bought recently but many won't even have a mortgage yet are putting up rent, when their costs have gone up a couple of percent in upkeep.
Unfortunately gonna get worse as there is less property to rent as the demand is high as you can see already.
Wealth tax, now!
the situation will get worse if the Renters Reform Bill abolishes fixed annual tenancies. Students will leave properties after 9 months and then the landlord will be compelled to relet to non-students, forever removing student properties from the market. Rents therefore will increase as supply decreases.
£225 pw is literally meant for a place for two people. I'm paying much more than that, but I have way more space than just an average room for let
Does this also apply to international students for a post-graduate program?
This is a great piece of journalism, but incredibly sad to see. In 2015 I was paying £60 p/w in Gilesgate excl bills, 2016 we moved to a newly refurbed house near the library for £120 p/w incl all bills, this was quite pricey at the time. We signed in late November which was considered early too
I was on the maximum loan and the Durham grant, I can't imagine what the situation is like for students now
I study in Southampton the going price is 180£ per week for an ensuite shared with 7 people.
Uni of Southampton have toke on to many foreign students which has put in a strain to find accommodation.
In the building, I live now is 80% non UK students.
Thanks pm rishi
Just remember this has a knock on effect onto the local economy, you wonder why uni students go out less, which has a knock on effect on isolatation, onto the economy and the tax income. The current housing crisis has been predicted to have contracted the economy by about 20%. Who knows what it has done for mental health.
this is great video piece. Also if I was a potential student looking into Durham. One look at this video would turn me right off of it. Inflation has gone up but it hasn't gone up so drastically high that landlords need to almost double the rent... they could increase rent by 11% and it would be just as profitable.
Where did you get these figures from (because they still smell of it) and have YOU ever sold something for LESS than you could get for it, to strangers whom you didn't know? Of course you haven't because that's not how human nature work and therefore that's not how the MARKET works, and there's an ECONOMICS lesson for you - FOR FREE! You're welcome!
This is so sad
Yeah, but that's students for ya!
I really dont think its that bad when you factor in that most of the utiltys are inclusive...
If you want cheaper rent i suggest you look further away from Durham City and commute...
if its that bad for students then imagine how difficult it is for locals. students and universities are displacing local residents. Try living in Bristol and paying less than 1000pcm for a one bed, impossible. everywhere you look, student blocks going up
Every university must offer free dorm room to each and every students. If necessary, they should build dorms...
Nothing is free. Someone has to pay for it. Maybe they should send you the bill.
@@stevo728822 and people who dont want to participate it should get a refund, but their children wont be able to stay at these dorms. Happy?
Should they indeed? And then, my little snow-white petal, who will pay for these 'free dorms'? I'm guessing it goanna be me, the TAX-Payer, yeah? And I'm guessing you don't yet pay TAX, right? Why should I pay for posh middle class kids to delay their working lives and have fun for three or four years? Once again you want the poor to buy the middle class their privileged position! No! GET A JOB!
@@stevo728822 How much profits are these universities making
It's crazy looking at what those kids are paying weekly when houses in Durham are absolutely piss cheap. You can buy houses in Durham for as little as £5000, so you know that a lot of these landlords have done exactly that. They have them paying more for student acconomdation than I do for a one bedroom flat. It's insane.
Where in Durham is that? Not Durham City
If they are that cheep why not buy one yourself, hmm? Or maybe a group of students could cluster together and buy one! Some folk are always waiting for others to do everything for them! Do it yourself and learn about dignity and self-respect!
The cheapest property in Durham COUNTY is £70,000
@@chrisb4504So, you tell FIBS as well! Find ONE house in Durham that only costs £5,000. Lefties fib about everything!
@@chrisb4504 So, telling fibs are we?
How about all the student accommodation that has been given away to people fresh off the boat.
the situation will get worse if the Renters Reform Bill abolishes fixed annual tenancies. Students will leave properties after 9 months and then the landlord will be compelled to relet to non-students, forever removing student properties from the market. Rents therefore will increase as supply decreases.
I feel for the students, but as someone from Durham, there simply isn’t enough houses for them at all. The university should provide halls for all students. Everyone growing up in Durham has to move away, there is no available housing in Durham for native non-students.
I pay £178 per week including bills for a student house in Durham that's a 40 minute walk away from campus
@DamienTalksMoney was it this bad when you were at Durham University?
This is apocalyptic. I was born in 1980. If my generation is to blame wholly or partly, on our behalf, I'm so appalled and genuinely sorry.
Why are you SORRY? What did you DO - EXACTLY?
@tezzo55 read what I've written. There's the word 'if' in there.
@@tariqkhader6196 Yes, little fellow, you certainly did, AND THEN you certainly followed your little "IF" with an apology, YES?
So (let's try again shall we?) "IF" your supposition pertains, then for what, exactly, WOULD you be sorry?
Irony is a difficult tool to use evidenced by the fact that most have no clue how it is done. You certainly don't!
Best
@@tariqkhader6196 Still waiting little fella!
They think it's bad now, just wait until you're done with school and have to deal with this and raising children too
One of the reasons no one wants children anymore
Thing is about student housing though is that the quality of the accommodation is far worse than in adult life if you can believe it. Landlords know students are young, poor and inexperienced so they won’t fight the bad conditions too hard. Black mould is extremely common.
@@loissmith7418 Then they can LEARN how to overcome these problems, after all they are meant to be students anyway, right?
‘Raise children’ lol. Birth rate is low and only going to get lower.
I’m interested to know the cause or reason for this to happen in Durham. And why Oxford is heading that way.
Tiny City, uni that expands without consideration, there's no space to build locally either.
@@TapWaterNationalist Did you miss the bit where the video showed the modal price bracket for student housing over the last 3 yrs, the bit where it was £140 pw 3 yrs ago and is £180+ pw now?! That's a 28.6% rise in rent over 3 yrs!
The existing housing didn't disappear, the number of students didn't increase. The rents have risen higher than peoples wages so they can't afford the same houses people could afford in 2021. It's not rocket science.
@@finnhagan7664 wow, crazy rental prices! What do the locals feel about that, you know?
I saw that, demand has increased, in fact is has doubled. Pricing makes sense. Geography isn't kind to Durham.@@finnhagan7664
Too many people
Manchester uni ‘94-‘96, £32 a week rent 4 bed house
Staffs Poly 86-89 rent £14 per week sharing a plush 3 bed house in Stoke. The lowest I could have got was £10 per week in an end of terrace where the neighbouring has had been knocked down.
£14 in 1989 is equivalent to just under £45 in 2024 according to the "This is Money" historic inflation calculator !
so real man, giggsy was so good during those seasons, and roy keane wow what a player. Immense
A lesson of supply and demand,before you get to university
Along with the ghost of Maggy Thatch and her neo-liberal policies destroying the housing sector
You’d be mad to move now between second and third year unless you absolutely have to. Better off signing a two year contract wherever you are in the UK.
Thanks god still i have roof over my head
Holy shit that’s an insane amount of money!!
This is what happens when super rich tenants buy up all affordable housing to extort people who need them, i wonder if middle class students at Durham despise the tories or not?
If you think its bad for students try being a local.
Hew can’t they just move into the local villiges way cheaper than the center and they’ll be able to afford it seen as there all rich
When I went to uni in Sheffield in 2016, my rent was 95pppw, all bills included, for comparison
A lot of the student accommodation in Birmingham is £80-120 so still not too bad
Meanwhile London where even the cheap housing is £200 💀💀💀
Unless you are exceptionally bright and are certain that a degree will be a springboard to future academic or professional success, I would seriously consider the value of attending a university to get a degree and the huge financial burden that comes with it. I wasn't clever enough to stay on to take A levels let alone go to university but I've done ok relying on hard work and common sense rather than a university education.
country is a mess. everyone aged 55 to 75 should be totally ashamed of themselves
It's not their fault; but rather it is the fault of a small subset of those "55- 75"; namely the traitorous politicans. The problems we have now are almost all the same problems people were suffering from 50 years ago.
They're not responsible for offering the right to buy and then failing to rebuild new social housing for subsequent generations. Blame successive governments who have turned home ownership into a game of Monopoly and sold off copious amounts of land in major cities to greedy developers who then install 100 unaffordable boxes on a small plot and force local people out. The knock on effect is that many southerners are cashing in and taking huge amounts to Northern cities like Manchester, changing the atmosphere and buying up the best properties in the nicer areas also tied to access to grammar schools.
Isn't that very AGEIST of you? You should be TOTALLY ashamed of yourself for blaming a whole group of people for your purely prejudicial reasons! So, ARE you ashamed? Of course you aren't, right? And neither am I. Now, why not run along and learn to cultivate a BRAIN as it appear you have nothing better to do!
Grow up. Whinging and playing the victim won't get you far, as you'll soon see.
The country is in a mess I'll grant you that. It's successive governments from Blair onwards that are responsible for this, in part for allowing immigration on a ridiculous level.
oct 23rd and they only just starting term..?! blimey..
Huge numbers of Durham students come from London. I notice they were never concerned about the price of accommodation there locking out northern students from huge swathes of the jobs market.
Wow was never that bad when I was there.
If landlords continue to lobby/donate to government to maintain the status quo and students just put up with it, the system won't change .
Durham is a global commercial centre
I just did a search on Rightmove in Durham. 0ver 100, 2 bed properties available for sale at or less than £100k. What shortage?
Just build more student accommodation blocks.
Who's paying?
@@stevo728822 Maybe Durham can with their £483.6 million budget this year?
@@ThePonziScheme Oh yeah, the budget they got from the TAX PAYER! From ME! Why should I, from the working class, subsidise posh kids extended holidays from working?
@@tezzo55 You're right lets line the pockets of greedy landlords instead👍 Donut
@@ThePonziSchemeNo need for rudeness, little fella, when we've got FACTS! Have YOU ever sold something to strangers (whom you don't know) for less than the market value?
I'll wait!
Best.
To be honest if youre going to uni youre probably not the most financially adept so queueing up to overpay for overpriced housing doesnt surprise me
Ok boomer. What else could they have possibly done?
Leave school ASAP (points for not going in the first place) and get on the tools? There are alternatives to staying in the comfortable world of acedemia until youre a tenurred doctor in gender studies with 250k in debt and no idea how the world works.
What a great world we will all live in where the only career is handiwork and there are no doctors or scientists.
Team them up and theyll be vaccinating the climate@@lanbroghini
@@ohnoitisnt most people have aspirations and dreams, they want to do something with their lives!
Universities should start doing online uni
This is nothing new, Aberystwyth around 2014/15 had students sleep in cars...
All houses go to immigrants 24billion spent when we should be looking after our own
Seriously im sorry about youngsters and its unfair
10 million (yes 10 million!) people live in this country who were not born here. This number is increasing every day. Enjoy the competition. If you are poor (like students) you will suffer. If you are rich, you may benefit from the mass of cheaper employees.
I would rent in the outside villages then travel in
Ik but the villiges are canny rough tho
@@Rizzlez169 Grew up in one, oh I know all too well. There are nice areas close. At least for 3rd year they can be perfect.
When students from Durham can no longer go to their local university...
A big issue is these waste of time degrees that most people seem to be doing. This issue is now almost un fixable
I know it's a cultural thing, and that going away to uni is seen as a rite of passage for the British middle class, but maybe we'll have to normalise going to a local university and living with your parents a little bit longer. In many European countries this is a completely normal thing to do. In Spain, only about 15% of university students move away from their home town to study.
Cultural thing or not lets not miss the point. Affordable housing is affecting everyone regardless of stage or passage unless you own a house outright.
Boomer answer, stay with us we know best! Houses used to be cheap, they can be again, stop hoarding the housing boomers!
Universities differ in rankings and quality across the country. Why should someone be forced to go to a sub-par university at home when they are perfectly capable of going to a better one?
what a great way to further entrench the postcode lottery and the UK's geographic inequalities!
Great now we can have even less social mobility for people born in poor areas
Fuck me £200 a week? I pay £300+ per MONTH in belfast I really don’t know how good I got it… England is fucked
Are there no other towns nearby?
Durham is tiny in the middle of nowhere
@@goych I thought its close to seaham, Darlington, Sunderland, Newcastle etc.?
@@Marenqo define close!
@@goych 15-20 mins by train or so, I would say is close, but thats based on average commute in the UK
Chester le street is probably even closer. Do many students live there?
When rentals for normal working people are already low, it makes sense for student rentals to be like this. Tories had implemented policies to punish landlords for owning properties to rent out, period. You can't blame landlords for selling up when it costs them more to own properties than park their money in a bank or change their investment strategies.
All governments fault for changing property owner taxes.
What??
@@stevo728822google what the govt have done with property taxes
£180 a week living anywhere is cheap.
Just too many people for such a small island!
Its not that. India is far more densely populated, yet the price of 2 bed flat in the vicinity of Hyderabad IT center costs just $10K to buy.
Blackrock on their way.
Maybe it's a sign that most of you guys shouldn't be there getting worthless degrees. But I tell you what's going to be: These kids will team up and rent shared houses and flats driving up prices even further up, while working families won't find a home (as none left), or won't be able to afford them.
Are there even any jobs up there?
Durham is a small posh town(city) up north. Prime area for wealthy boomers to retire to. Newcastle and Sunderland are only a few miles away. Probably not posh enough for these students. I'm sure there's a bus.
Interesting what happens when you 'eat the landlords' isnt it?
maybe this will incentivise the youth to vote
or revolt
The cause is far too manu takong up degrees in the last 25 years. Preparing them for the real world where they have navigate precarious jobs thta were lofe long careers foe genx backwards and the true cost of peivate rent fed by more than a million immigrants adding to the population every single year.
I don't normally complain about spelling errors but there's so many here it's hard to read what you're trying to say.
More than 25 years ago. Started from late 80's too many going
@@Dongobog-ps9tzyour degree didn't prepare you foe the real world. Did it.
@@reformukisthefutureI'm an engineer
At least they can actually type, you are illiterate
University greed and avarice, foreign migrants and they’re family dependents take precedent in all facets of life best students learn that lesson early as the uniparty will not change anything.
Stay longer in halls
Halls are designed to accommodate first years. If first years stay in halls in their second year, where will the new first years ago? Durham would have to double, maybe even triple the amount of halls they have.
They won’t let you stay after 1st year
A crumbling second world country, embarrassing
Welcome to capitalism the best system in the world....
for landl0rds, for everybody else, tough, at least there is freedom,
freedom to not go to higher education.
More immigrants less houses duuuuuhhhhhhh
Its Durham not London for immigration, its also the most restricted building due to its historic nature and town, but you can blame forign people
@mrk1764 ahhh I didn't realise immigrants just stayed in one place like a plant 🤣🤣🤣 also take pride in your history whilst you can for the new people don't appreciate your history as its not there history so don't pretend like they will appreciate it 🤣🤣🤣 also how do you feel about how your vote is worth less now that people who don't have your views or ethics who come from abroad are now able to out vote you tell me what's the adverage size family in your family.. 2 kids maybe 1 potentially 3 to 4 if you have been busy over the years as a youth ... now tell me how many kids do the foreign nationals have .... alot more than you have ... do alot of the 3rd world have the same views as you .. nope ... 🤣🤣🤣🤣 your fucking yourself over and your grandkids aswell never mind your grandkids grandkids 🤣🤣🤣 housing .. good luck for them 🤣🤣🤣 a meaningful vote ... pha if they are lucky 🤣🤣🤣 thew English you suck off have out voted your grandkids 6 to 1 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@mrk1764 Durham's not seeing mass migration?
@@mrk1764 They increased non eu international students to 27%, so it might be a problem.
For those with British passport ask your grandparents/parents for a personal loan secured on their properties to pay others for a rent. For those from outside just go to other Europe countries to learn and study because it is not worth to stay in the UK. Most from old generations are happy with their property/ies price going up but don't realise that this impacts their sons and grandsons. Welcome to another example of how greedy capitalism impact society.
Scarcity politics played with housing is not just a British issue. Germany has an unbelievably short supply and prices are far too high!
The UK has some of the best universities in the world, imo second only to the US simply due to the sheer number they have there so I'd argue it is worth studying here
@@fantasypvp I think it depends at what level you´re talking about. If you can get into one of the world-class institutions then it´s worth it. At the lower level it´s a lot of expense students could avoid.
@@jameswingad3212 yeah definitely but the point I was trying to make is that the UK has more world class institutions than almost any other country, if you look at the top 10 in the world, almost all of them are in the UK or US so it's definitely worth paying if you get in one of the really good ones
@@fantasypvp Oh easily. Look at the rest of Europe and they´re not even close
0:25 man needs to cut his unibrow xD
Guess these students are spending all their cash on Ketamine. 200 a week is easy lol.
Most university contracts at least 44 weeks of the year. So 200, per week, for 44 weeks is £8800, that maximum student maintenance loan for 2023/2024 is £9,978.
That leaves them, just after paying RENT, with about £1200 for the year.
1200/44 = £27 per week.
Could you live on £27 a week to cover all your expenses outside of rent/utilities? That's your food bill, phone bill, transport, new clothes, any other expense you've got.
@@doghat1619 don’t students get a job?
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Those rents are very cheap, I fail to see what the problem is. In most of London one single bed room is £300 plus!
Durham isn't London pal. Single bed also isn't the same as a shared house, or a shared student house. Theyre paying quite near London shared house prices.
You get paid more in London mate
Spoken like a true parasitic landlord
County Durham does not have jobs.
@@phallusy6574 but it's got Students!
Nothing to do with mass immigration . Yea sure
Perhaps try something else besides following the herd into a useless degree and debt?
its nice to see university students learning about something important for once, housing. £200 a week too expensive??? I cant wait to see their faces knowing there is a housing shortage when they leave the safety of uni!!!
Just get a job on the side…
You'd need 2.
Wow, a real life lesson for students! If your rent is £200 a week but you only have weekly £100 to spend how will you acquire the rest of your money to pay your bills? I'm guessing the girls will work out the answer more quickly than the boys, as they are usually brighter on the uptake!
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I made so much money from student housing. Bought 5 properties and students always cashflow them. Durham is a great market. Too many doing degrees and many would have a better career doing a trade.
Psychopath spotted
Given you parasite on them, why do you complain about students not doing a trade?
@@Marenqo because I can not find a trades man to do electrical and plumbing.
@@davidc4408 Do it yourself, then, or have you gone to university as well?
I suggest you become a tradesman. You can then fix your 5 properties yourself
Those "students" goanna have to sell their butts to earn the rent, 'cause, "There ain't nothing going on butt the rent!"