Student renters under attack
This week student tenants come under fire yet again and this time reports blame the absence of students in the summer holidays for ghettoising cities.
The HMO lobby, those against houses in multiple occupation, are heralding new government plans to restrict the number of let properties used to home 4 or more people arguing that it is a straight forward way to decrease the impact of summer ghost towns and ghettoisation on the local community.
The HMO lobby complain that in university cities in particular whole streets are overrun with student tenants who degrade the area by littering, causing riotous behaviour and increasing noise pollution. A vast student let property populous also changes the occupation of many local shops with an increase in fast food takeouts and letting agents and to add insult to injury the inhabitants of entire streets then vanish as the summer break commences.
All these factors contribute to the altering face of the local area making it a difficult place for all-year residents and families as entire areas especially those near the educational establishments become ghettoised by the university bohemian mob.
The National Students Union (NSU) and the British Property Federation, landlords and students, damn the plan as a 'knee-jerk' reaction as an ill thought response. They highlight that the complaints of the HMO lobby only present a real problem in a small concentrated of areas in the UK and fail to recognise that many students play an active role in the community.
Further, should the new government plans be implemented already struggling students will be forced with higher rents from landlords who cannot maximise the profit of HMO properties and who may also face difficult housing choices. Businesses who rely on student custom will also struggle under the new plans to spread out student housing.
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