The sorry state of student housing

By Penny Anderson. Students are easy prey for unscrupulous landlords, who are cashing in by charging huge rents for shabby properties.
Recently I stayed, temporarily, in student accommodation again. Nostalgically I pictured the residential halls of my youth, remembering torrential water fights, superhuman livers and stark, utilitarian fittings. I thought to myself: they must be different now – surely these days, student housing no longer resembles an open prison.