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News from the NOS•yesterday, 19:47
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It is and remains complicated for pupils to discover a place. Final calendar year they were being there 26,500 student residences lack, and it is approximated that it will keep on being so this year also. The housing shortage among pupils means that they also glimpse for accommodation outdoors the large cities.
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The Kamer.nl rental web-site sees that students are keen to settle for a bigger length from the heart or campus. This is because of to the actuality that extra is offered exterior the huge metropolitan areas and that the rates for each square meter are decrease.
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Kamernet also sees an raise in housing demand from customers in bordering cities, but can not communicate of a sizeable improve however.
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“It is component of the alternative, but not the great resolution,” explained Jolan de Bie, director of the Kences knowledge center for university student accommodation, of the improve. “But necessity breaks the legislation. The college student actually likes to have a home. A household in the location is better than no residence.”
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Learning in Utrecht, living in Hilversum
20-calendar year-old Valerie Jaski life in Hilversum with 3 roommates. All 4 analyze in Utrecht. “I was on the lookout for a area in Utrecht, but it was not possible in terms of selling price. The supply was also extremely constrained.”
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“I like it below. I constantly say: this home would be best if it ended up in Utrecht,” says Valerie. She and nonetheless she is not seeking for a area in Utrecht and is happy in Hilversum.
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Overflow region
The reality that pupils transfer to neighboring municipalities is also owing to the increase in provide. For illustration, the DUWO pupil lodging company is forced to search for destinations in the location exactly where the works can consider location.
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“If I had the possibility to present a residence to all pupils in Amsterdam, I would not say no. But it really is not doable, so you have to make the most of it,” suggests Gijsbert Mull of DUWO.
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In addition to the tasks in Hoofdorp, Voorschoten and Haarlem, DUWO will host the nevertheless-to-be-developed campus in Almere. The houses are partly meant for learners of the universities of applied sciences in Windesheim and Aeres, but the campus will have to also act as an overflow space for Amsterdam.
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Commuters of Sittard
In accordance to Kences, the Amsterdam region is the furthest building in the region. But a transform is also obvious in other university student metropolitan areas.
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A intricate with 260 scholar residences will open up this week in Sittard. Some of the learners will review additional than twenty kilometers away at Maastricht College. Only just one resident also reports in Eindhoven.
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Maastricht College at first feared that the students would not want to dwell in Sittard, but those people fears turned out to be unfounded. There was a ton of curiosity and now all the properties have been rented out.
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Bicycles
Ayaka Minamii from Japan is a single of the students who will live in Sittard. “I at first attempted to discover a space in Maastricht. But it shortly turned out to be far more tough than envisioned. The university encouraged me to also seem outdoors Maastricht. That’s how I finished up in Sittard.”
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“Acquiring a home was the hardest element of my go to the Netherlands”
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Minamii is content to have uncovered a home, but hopes to eventually be equipped to dwell in Maastricht. “Maastricht is really a university student town, you have every little thing you have to have there.”
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Additionally, as a non-European pupil, she is not entitled to an OV chip card, which implies she has to pay out for journey by general public transportation. She minamii she thinks about using a bicycle, even though she admits she isn’t going to know how far she is (25 kilometers).
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emotion
In accordance to DUWO, it is interesting for the bordering municipalities to host learners. It is a way to keep youthful people today in the suburbs. They might be ready to shake matters up a little bit there.
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Student housing service provider SSH thinks metropolitan areas ought to like college students. They provide the liveliness from which cities attract their character. SSH is thus seeking to make housing in the college student cities on their own.
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