It’s going to turn into a massive urban / rural divide.
If you’re in one of the larger cities you can live at home and get a wide choice of programmes and decent universities – if you’re not you’re going to be very limited by family income.
It’s a pretty ludicrous situation that we gave huge tax breaks to student accommodation which were hoovered up by speculators charging insane room rates and we never bothered building enough of it.
There should be very large scale university housing for undergrads, postgrad, researchers and also for staff at this point too.
It would take huge amounts of stress off college and also be a big load of people taken out of the housing market.
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Interestingly UCD has the cheapest starting accomodation of any of the Dublin universities in the piece – €5,722 for a shared bedroom in their new(ish) village. Cheapest at DCU and Trinity is €6,035 and €6,066 respectively.
What’s also fascinting is that UCDs village has delivered 900 out of a planned 3,000 beds but they had to stop the project in 2022 because the construction costs had got so high. Shows how fundamentally broken the construction sector is that these kinds of rents can’t deliver viable accomodation. (I believe the government is going to subsidise them to build some of the rest of the project).
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It’s going to turn into a massive urban / rural divide.
If you’re in one of the larger cities you can live at home and get a wide choice of programmes and decent universities – if you’re not you’re going to be very limited by family income.
It’s a pretty ludicrous situation that we gave huge tax breaks to student accommodation which were hoovered up by speculators charging insane room rates and we never bothered building enough of it.
There should be very large scale university housing for undergrads, postgrad, researchers and also for staff at this point too.
It would take huge amounts of stress off college and also be a big load of people taken out of the housing market.
Interestingly UCD has the cheapest starting accomodation of any of the Dublin universities in the piece – €5,722 for a shared bedroom in their new(ish) village. Cheapest at DCU and Trinity is €6,035 and €6,066 respectively.
What’s also fascinting is that UCDs village has delivered 900 out of a planned 3,000 beds but they had to stop the project in 2022 because the construction costs had got so high. Shows how fundamentally broken the construction sector is that these kinds of rents can’t deliver viable accomodation. (I believe the government is going to subsidise them to build some of the rest of the project).