Asking students why they put up with such shit housing | Extreme Britain

แชร์
ฝัง
  • เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 พ.ย. 2024

ความคิดเห็น • 1.1K

  • @ecknareal
    @ecknareal 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1487

    Go to university for free, Get a house for three years your annual wage, have enough disposable income to have multiple children. Then pull that ladder UP!, £9k+ annual fees for students, unbearable living condition no chance of escaping debt or rent cycle. Well done Boomers you did it.

    • @uioplkhj
      @uioplkhj 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +36

      Nick Clegg and David Cameron are both gen Xers.

    • @JoelJoel321
      @JoelJoel321 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +73

      ​@@uioplkhjWho voted them in.

    • @TheUnluckyGama
      @TheUnluckyGama 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +31

      @@JoelJoel321Gen X and Boomers

    • @JoelJoel321
      @JoelJoel321 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

      @@TheUnluckyGama Yes that was my point thank you.

    • @Jezza_One
      @Jezza_One 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

      It was Blairs fault too many people going to university meant free university was unaffordable.

  • @stephenjames59
    @stephenjames59 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1226

    UK, where students are forced to pay the mortgages of greedy landlords. After a friend of mine took his own life, I stood as guarantor for his daughter's student accommodation. The hoops I had to jump through were unbelievable and there was even a term saying that if I died and she didn't pay the rent, the money would have to come out of my estate. They are ruthless. We complain that we don't have enough doctors but they are making it almost impossible for people to go to University unless they have loads of money.

    • @piccalillipit9211
      @piccalillipit9211 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +69

      Meanwhile, here in Bulgaria I have a 68m2 apartment next to the beach that costs me £132.15 a month

    • @CCP_Operative
      @CCP_Operative 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      Landlords aren't letting housing out of the goodness of thier hearts and shouldn;t be expected to, nor do the supermarkets sell food out of the goodness of their hearts.
      I don't doubt that some of them take it too far and are ruthless.

    • @grumpy-dad3701
      @grumpy-dad3701 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +82

      ​@@CCP_OperativeI worked for unite students and I can tell you forcing students to pay 650, 700+ for a box room. Painting over mold or flatly refusing to help is and was ripping people off

    • @user-xu5vl5th9n
      @user-xu5vl5th9n 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      That is what a guarantor is and I find that entirely believable. In some cases agents have required a "guarantor for the guarantor". If you "follow the money" it is the government taxing landlords even when they are losing money. Maybe driving out landlord investors was not such a smart move,. This is just reaping what was sown by Generation Rent, Shelter and other lobbyists.

    • @george-broughton
      @george-broughton 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@piccalillipit9211The only way you're getting those prices in the UK, is if you're in a 12-bed house share in the suburb areas around a city where you're actually just renting a bed, instead of a room.

  • @deusex3124
    @deusex3124 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +561

    That girl going to lectures until 5 going to work at 6 and getting home at 3 or 4, that's brutal. It must have a detrimental impact on your physical and mental health.
    We treat young people with utter contempt and don't see the value in investing in them.

    • @bishopdante
      @bishopdante 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You have to understand that this is a war over who gets to own scientific knowledge and the patents associated with it. By destroying government-funded foreign academic institutions, big business can control academia - which it owns in the USA. Academia in the USA was built by industrialists - "philanthropists" they call them. The censorship of scientific research ensures profits - particularly when it comes to society and medicine.
      The bigger problem the USA has is that the native people were subjected to oppression and genocide less than 200 years ago, and the politics is substantially deformed by the war between european colonists and americans, and that the catholic church's religious imperialism played in the medieval attempt to create world domination - if we get a scientific appraisal of history, quite a lot of wealth redistribution and rights investigations will have to occur, and when some of the behaviour of the industrialists is exposed, we will realise that seeing the back of this toxic scenario will take centuries and generations to put right.

    • @notmenotme614
      @notmenotme614 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Is she doing this every day. Or only 3 days a week?

    • @Jack_Fatcat
      @Jack_Fatcat 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +56

      ​@notmenotme614 as if that makes it any better, just because your not going into university doesn't mean your not expected to be doing university work.... its called full time education for a reason.

    • @notmenotme614
      @notmenotme614 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@Jack_Fatcat its no different to anyone else. People need to work to afford things and you still need to do things outside of work, such as house maintenance or look after your children.
      If you can’t handle this then don’t do the university course.

    • @c-tothefourth4879
      @c-tothefourth4879 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Low intelligence.@@notmenotme614

  • @mynameisalex_
    @mynameisalex_ 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +537

    Lived in Leeds for 13 years now, 12 of those years was renting from its predatory and exploitative rental sector. If I could impart one bit of advice to any students, DO NOT GIVE UP ON YOUR DEPOSIT. The agent/landlord will lie and use false evidence against you, don't stand for it, reclaim your money. Do not let them win.

    • @mynameisalex_
      @mynameisalex_ 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +40

      Also take photos of everything when you move in and store them on dropbox or whatever. You'll be glad you did when you start exchanging emails with the agent.

    • @spikeychris
      @spikeychris 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      The student rental stock in Leeds is particularly shit as well. I remember looking for flats in Leeds in 2008 and was shocked at just how bad the rental stock was (to the point we didn't move to leeds).

    • @stpirate89
      @stpirate89 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      Don't pay your last month's rent, that was what I used to do

    • @formibleformer1452
      @formibleformer1452 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I live in Leeds now. Over a grand for a two bedroom with bugs in the walls. It’s pretty central as well. I heard great things about Leeds years ago and even went to visit once as a non Leeds based student. Amazing time. Look at it now and people are paying for this rubbish.

    • @MeiinUK
      @MeiinUK 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@spikeychris: This is the thing, you guys should've done some checking as well... Sheffield's housing stock is fine. And for most of us, even in my generation around the 1995s... I did check the "cost of living", for that city, EVEN before I decide on whether to take on the courses, or not. I might be able to get in, but to be fair.. what is the point, if I come out with more debts, than my job will pay ? It is no point. So.... In actual fact, if you studied abroad, actually.. in other countries, or even in HK.... lol.... You will get to have a lot better of an actual experience ? Frankly ? Even commute in and out every day.... like around 1 hour or so.... And they were begging for students as well. Their meals and their food is only around 50p for an actual genuine real meal. (Not a joke.)

  • @themanabroad7800
    @themanabroad7800 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +147

    It’s a vicious cycle, the young lad mentioned that he thought that it may be partly self inflicted due to them not caring for the house, but when you move into a place with vermin, mould and leaks everywhere then I can understand why there is no compulsion to care for the house.

    • @notmenotme614
      @notmenotme614 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      You do realise vermin and mould is caused by not cleaning the house. It can be avoided but instead of buying bathroom cleaner he’s probably spending all his money drinking in Headingley instead

    • @doghat1619
      @doghat1619 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

      @@notmenotme614the comment clearly said "when you move into a place with vermin, mould and leaks"
      as in, you show up and the place is a shithole because the landlords haven't cleaned and fixed it up from the last tenants

    • @notmenotme614
      @notmenotme614 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@doghat1619 Looking in the background of those houses, how many are cleaned by the occupants?

    • @Nicole-kc1vx
      @Nicole-kc1vx 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@doghat1619 so, the place is a pig stye, therefore you just choose to make it worse instead of trying to improve it?
      If you have vermin, why would you keep the place untidy when that will, in turn, invite more vermin? What nonsense logic is that.
      Also, you would notice the crap when viewing the flat. If the place was as much of a shithole originally as they claim, why willingly rent that spot? When I was viewing flats, I took videos of every inch of the place and sent it to people to see if they could spot problems I didn't notice.
      When I was at uni and had to move off campus I chose private student accommodation, much better than renting a house from private landlords. It's not as cheap (although, sometimes you can get discounts if you convince others to move in too) but its much better than renting a house with friends.
      Private landlords are awful, you will be left having to fix a lot of stuff on your own, if you are in a flat managed by a business they often have reliable contractors that they frequently use. So you aren't stuck waiting for cowboy builders to appear and do quick fixes.

    • @DanteLovesPizza
      @DanteLovesPizza 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It is a vicious cycle. Students, as a whole, don't care for the place they rent. "I'm only renting" is the mindset. If they treated the place better, like they actually owned it, landlords would be incentivised to do the upkeeping so the property retains value.
      If the last student wrecked the place, and the one before them did as well, then naturally you assume the current student will do the same, and the next one will do the same, so there's no incentive to repair the place, because it will only get broken within weeks, or even days, as I've seen people do before when I was studying.
      I remember visiting a friend in their student accommodation, and no kidding, but someone down the hall had vomit outside their door from drinking too much and the ceiling was torn because someone decided it was OK to tear it out. These don't occur naturally, so why would landlords pay thousands to repair them for it to happen again the next weekend?

  • @louisbromfield7794
    @louisbromfield7794 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +363

    A major structural problem is the turnaround inherent to uni life. If a landlord gets complaints from tenants, they know the students will probably finish their degree within 1-2 years and leave. Then when the next students come in there is a lag before those same issues become concerns for them and so landlords know they don't need to cater to short-term tenants. Additionally, there's no shortage of demand, they know that no matter what, students need places to live and are desperate. Students can't protest it by not renting properties or they'll have nowhere to live.

    • @Durzel
      @Durzel 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      That's a great point. There's a finite period of time these poor students will be living in the house, so both them and the landlord will probably just accept that it's problem they have to live with. If they kick up too much of a fuss - e.g. by just raising the problem more than once or something - they might get booted out.

    • @louisbromfield7794
      @louisbromfield7794 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      ​@@DurzelExactly, if they're in their final year, and the problem will take 6 months to get sorted, what's the point? Landlords know they have the power here. Sucks!

    • @joejjj4378
      @joejjj4378 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      also you're forgetting that most students have to reapply for accommodation each year so really they will be gone by the next May

    • @nancyhood8395
      @nancyhood8395 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      a landlord refurbished a house at 30k outlay and the tenants partied 24/7 dealt drugs had door kicked off by police and trashed property ,he sold up ,no respect for property, but expect everything, two sides to every story

    • @tylerdurden4396
      @tylerdurden4396 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@nancyhood8395always bad apples and they should be prosecuted so the entire student population don’t suffer. The again, landlords would still use it as evidence to whack rents up.

  • @GCT.01
    @GCT.01 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +126

    Found a good loophole for my student accomodation costs. I was left without heating for 5 months over Winter, carbon monoxide leaked into the flat and the agency's response was to replace the carbon monoxide detector. I'm now taking them to court for lots of money so I consider this effectively money saved :)

    • @Jonny_Karate
      @Jonny_Karate 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +53

      "Landlords HATE this one simple trick"

    • @doghat1619
      @doghat1619 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      Good on you, hope you take them for all their worth.

  • @benjaminadams1823
    @benjaminadams1823 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +304

    These poor kids. Uni is meant to be the one bit of your life where you get a chance to have some fun now and then. They're all just surviving.

    • @bobjames6622
      @bobjames6622 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      I will be charitable, and assume that you're not dumb, but instead being sarcastic.

    • @jakesmith-bs4jd
      @jakesmith-bs4jd 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Lol

    • @steve00alt70
      @steve00alt70 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      Uni is a scam. You can have fun everyday its a choice to be happy or not

    • @PikaJess123
      @PikaJess123 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Yup and for what... most struggle to get a job after uni

    • @rewazza
      @rewazza 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +38

      @@steve00alt70 watch you live and breathe black mould, no hot water etc and see if you still think being happy is a choice. how naive.

  • @TheMoo1995
    @TheMoo1995 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +367

    Britain is broken...

    • @anab0lic
      @anab0lic 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +33

      and the selfish greed of the wealthy few is to blame.

    • @TheMoo1995
      @TheMoo1995 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@anab0lic the circle of life

    • @TheSuperPsychoKiller
      @TheSuperPsychoKiller 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      When you make greed legal.

    • @UkSapyy
      @UkSapyy 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      @1995 They're examples in history of when greed was punished. The French started a revolution. Norway's general population was so poor that went down the route of public initiatives. And of course here in the UK/England we have had things like Folks song written like the Digger's Song or the Labour movement which tried to get people to work together and use their power to fix greed.
      Of course, we've had leaders like Marget Thatcher who are for the greed of the few. The short-termism of politics (that is mainly Thatcher responsible for) of the last few decades has created this mess and as such things will only get worse unless people start working together to create long-term political goals.

    • @garycooper9207
      @garycooper9207 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Tribe of Cain

  • @paul47796
    @paul47796 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +239

    What a broken shit hole for an island. Can't see it getting any better anytime in the near or far future.

    • @sebluketravis2438
      @sebluketravis2438 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      are you American, is your name Sally Mae? Let's be super clear, USA is MUUUCCCHHH worse with out of state and REDICULOUS APR costs incurred.

    • @EnterTheSoundscape
      @EnterTheSoundscape 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      I can’t wait to escape this island once I’m a qualified nurse. The struggle of being a student is unreal and the pay is shit in the UK when I finish my degree.

    • @timdexter2642
      @timdexter2642 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      @@EnterTheSoundscape I wish you the best of luck in completing your degree! and I hope you do leave this utter disgrace of a country. I myself am currently trying to find a career that would allow to leave the Country.

    • @notmenotme614
      @notmenotme614 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Goodbye 👋

    • @4kgamecube
      @4kgamecube 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@EnterTheSoundscape same haha

  • @carloernestosarli9585
    @carloernestosarli9585 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +248

    The thing is that students are often admonished for spending wildly or not being responsible with money, but they are an economy, if students were parsimonious, worked and never went out, a whole economy of clubs, pubs and other local businesses would suffer…

    • @Maksimszz
      @Maksimszz 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +43

      I mean we are literally seeing that now, The economy is literally in a recession. If people were living more comfortably then maybe GDP would increase and productivity would also increase

    • @luminousfractal420
      @luminousfractal420 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      we arent the problem. the elites abusing us all are.
      why it worked for years and now doesnt...rich arent paying their way and are trying to normalize third world conditions. and this last couple of decades they got away with all of it

    • @UKfromadrone
      @UKfromadrone 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

      the other thing is, that 18+, away from family is your best time of your life... you have the energy, the freedom, the willingness to go out and enjoy yourself... take away the money, the time and the willingness and you are nothing just an early middle-aged person...
      I was 18 15 years ago (jeesus christ), and I am grateful, that I had the freedom and the work and the people around me, and I could enjoy my life just for a bit...
      seriously 2020s and grifting economy and everyone trying to milk everyone instead of just trying to make enough to live makes everything horrible...

    • @Yasser-hy8tn
      @Yasser-hy8tn 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      I'd argue clubs and pubs should suffer, they make their money from people with alcohol addictions, nothing good ever comes out of a club, just people getting spiked, harassed, assaulted etc. Students spend all their money in these places, keeping them poor, further pushing them into debt and alcohol spirals.

    • @not_ever
      @not_ever 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      "a whole economy of clubs, pubs and other local businesses would suffer". Yes that is already happening and guess who got the blame in the press? Students.
      "Pryzm nightclub boss blames lack of students for closures." - BBC,
      "Pryzm nightclub boss blames closures on students cutting back" - Guardian,
      "End of the student night out? Clean-living Gen Zs are to blame says industry boss" - Daily Mail.
      If you read what this guy actually said he blamed the cost of living crisis and high rents: "The cost of living is singularly the biggest issue that we face. A lot of students who used to be paying, say, £800 a month for their accommodation, have been facing [higher rents of] £1,200 a month".
      For some reason that didn't make a nice headline. Maybe the headline writers are landlords.

  • @nyxnecrodragon4256
    @nyxnecrodragon4256 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +43

    Those kitchens are triggering me so much. It reminds me of when I was a student and I lived with other students. I came from a very clean house so I would put everything away and my housemates would just expect me to do the cleaning. They'd leave dirty plates, half eaten food and mugs on the table and leave wet laundry to sweat in the washing machine. One had a un neutered chihuahua that like to spray up the wall. Nobody took the bins out. Put me off living with other people forever. My brother went through the same thing.

    • @Luke39202
      @Luke39202 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      I’m going through the same thing right now. Can’t wait to live on my own 😂

    • @DanteLovesPizza
      @DanteLovesPizza 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      You're the good egg, but when ten bad eggs have spoiled the place, you get treated like a bad egg. It's why student accommodation are in terrible states. You, personally, weren't at fault, but you, as a student, were collectively at fault. Those kitchens are essentially proof of this.

  • @badalice14
    @badalice14 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +122

    Things have changed for the worse for students so much recently. I think the young person who said they had to work at a bar made that really clear - students have always complained (myself included) but rent, bills and food prices have all gone up whilst wages have stagnated and loans and bursaries are lower or non existent. I thought my time at uni was rough but this is the next level.

    • @Natta44
      @Natta44 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yeah I graduated 10 years ago and I thought it was bad then! Must be so much worse and the pandemic made it even worse. I feel for them. It's just not fair because they is nothing they csn do about it as boomers just say they complain. No fking wonder why! Why is it OK to make them feel like squatters for 3 years. They are the future!

    • @rolandhawken6628
      @rolandhawken6628 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I notice you don't mention students are exempt from council tax ,waste money on a scale ordinary people can't imagine .party all night keeping people who have to go to work inthe morning up all night, litter the streets to such an extent gangs of council men are needed to clean up after them . Living next to them is a nightmare

    • @KazeHorse
      @KazeHorse 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

      @@rolandhawken6628 I bought a terrace house and realised that I live next to a student house... The dread set in. But in 5 years and I haven't had any problems from them at all. There is the odd party but I'd say it's once every 4 or 5 months and they never seem to go all night, they just finish up at around 10 and head out... Some years it's dead quiet. Whereas I hear my other neighbour shouting down a phone more than I hear anything from the student house.
      So maybe painting them all with the same brush is not just unfair, its childish and pathetic.

    • @rolandhawken6628
      @rolandhawken6628 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@KazeHorse I don't paint them all the same as you say that would be childish , but they are all transients as tenants so for 3 years you could have a good group ,but next year a nightmare group on the whole they are trouble most litter without remorse slam doors yell at each other in the street . I had a group that partied so loud my floorboards shook ,it does no bother me in the slightest ,but I have the opinion they are in general spoilt middle class left wing little shits that think only of their selves . I learned a long time ago if you react to their noise they just do it more , but on the bright side some groups are well behaved ,if you have gone 5 years with little trouble you have been lucky very lucky . I would be interested in your area ,I am talking of Manchester Rusholme pretty bad in general with Muslim youths mugging students and cops do nothing lol

    • @doghat1619
      @doghat1619 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      @@rolandhawken6628 You don't have to be a student to do those things

  • @nathonso_edits
    @nathonso_edits 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +191

    Landlords are making a killing off students, 4 or 5 in a house with £500 per room. They don't bother to sort any issues because they know the students will be gone in a year or two

    • @sciencefliestothemoon2305
      @sciencefliestothemoon2305 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

      500 is cheap, probably more around 700-1000

    • @stitchlover633
      @stitchlover633 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      sounds like the politicians

    • @kalipiana3880
      @kalipiana3880 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      when i was at uni in 2018 in my final year i was able to get a whole 1 bed flat for 650 per month in brighton..............

    • @davidz2690
      @davidz2690 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@sciencefliestothemoon2305 maybe in the south... I went a few years ago it was £80 a week

    • @latuafacilitanonsemplifica
      @latuafacilitanonsemplifica 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      A customer or patient comes to you (doctor, lawyer and so on) once, and you don't know where he will be in a month not in two years. You can do anything with him isn't it? No? And why you can do anything with a tenant?

  • @mightyheights7331
    @mightyheights7331 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +69

    I lived in Hyde Park, Leeds for 3 years.
    I never ended up living in housing as bad as this is, but I saw some HORRENDOUS properties while searching every year.
    One of the most disgusting things, which was surprisingly common was where a Landlord would take a 4 bed property and just put fake walls through the rooms, creating an 8 bed property.
    This was over 10 years ago, average price I paid for a room in a shared house would have been £250 - £300
    Looking back now, the ENTIRE higher education industry is a massive scam. Taking a load of clueless and financially illiterate young people, let them run around taking the piss on borrowed money for 3 years, while giving all of that borrowed money to pre existing rich people and then Spit them out on the other side with no job prospects.

    • @johnfisher697
      @johnfisher697 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      I used to work in HE as a Lecturer , the biggest abuse I saw was the faculty telling students to join in the picket line when they went out on strike, "Because you need us to get a good degree."
      Made my blood boil so much, and the Teaching of answers in the Secondary sector to improve O/A level results for a pay productivity bonus.
      Education is no longer a meritocracy due to the Good Performance by students but a fee paying "Industry" .

    • @martinspeer262
      @martinspeer262 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Hyde Park is wicked..it's central London. No complaints there, I'm sure. I've lived in Bayswater once

    • @johnfisher697
      @johnfisher697 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@martinspeer262 I'm sure you have, however the Hyde Park in question is in Leeds near to the University and Headingly.

  • @plxton
    @plxton 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +50

    I was fortunate enough to be able to go back to my parents after first year. Awful experience! The halls were £7k - we had weavils, no hot water between November - February and every time we complained they took two weeks to send a guy to say yep it's broken and do nothing (that was the cycle the whole time) and I ended up in hospital with a staphylococcus infection from the fact we couldn't wash our dishes properly. In winter it was too cold (no hot shower either obviously) and in summer it was unbearably hot. My mental health hit an all time low. My friends asked me to come and view houses for second year and I just out right refused. Same in third year. I consider myself fortunate that I had somewhere to fall back on and 100% consider that my good degree outcome was only because I moved back home but Christ the whole UK student experience is absolutely criminal. I think if I'd stayed I'd have become more ill and ultimately ended up with a poor degree.

    • @PikaJess123
      @PikaJess123 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Agree. By second year I decided to move back home and get the train to uni. I could not face living in the poor accommodation

    • @johnfisher697
      @johnfisher697 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Seriously you should have done that in the first place, but the lure of booze, birds and a hedonistic 3-4 years is of set by the reality of every thing has a cost.
      Keep the @hagging out till you have Graduated.

    • @gwynsea8162
      @gwynsea8162 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@PikaJess123 That's a fucking miserable uni experience. My heart breaks for the modern students. And I think it's got quite a lot worse relatively recently. Daughter #1 was at Sheff a few years ago and it was ok (she's got debt of course but because her mum is classed as single mother got the full maint loan)... daughter #2 decided to do a degree apprenticeship with a big accountancy firm instead. A wise move. But #1 really needed uni to work her shit out so it was good she went and lucky she only has about 50k of debt 😔

  • @SamHarrisonMusic
    @SamHarrisonMusic 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +77

    I work in a live music bar that's popular with students. Contrary to what most people believe, students want somewhere to go where they can be safe and not preyed upon. Most of them don't get drunk and do drugs, they're pretty anxious and just trying to get through shit really. They're aware that everyone around them is trying to screw money out of them and rip them off, and because we don't, they come to us - we try to give them a brighter part of their week.

  • @samhodgkinson8901
    @samhodgkinson8901 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +161

    The current state of the UK rental market (especially student rentals) is utterly parasitic and monopolistic. Landlords are fully aware that young people have no option, and are maintaining their customer base by hiking up rental costs, expanding property portfolios, and effectively pricing out the vast majority of the young population from getting mortgages.
    It feels like a radical opinion to hold, but I honestly see no reason why corporate ownership of residential properties shouldn't be made illegal. Owning stuff isn't a fucking job.

    • @EarlHare
      @EarlHare 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Could say that about Companies and Corporations. Owning them isn't a job either, and as for the risk well.... Certain industries are largely solved in the 21st century and are therefore absolutely minimum risk in terms of investment. Nationalise them or tax them!!!!!!!

    • @Nosterartis
      @Nosterartis 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      Its a real shame what these landlords are doing to their properties as well. I've rented my share of gorgeous old buildings, former council homes. Without fail every single one has been falling to pieces where the landlord just refuses to have any work done until it starts to become a genuine risk to the structure, and then often the work is done to just an embarrassingly shoddy quality. One place they seemed to have dealt with holes in the pointing by literally just slapping concrete over the wall and leaving the spatters all over it and the floor to harden afterwards... I think a 6 year old playing Bob the Builder could have done a more professional job.

    • @MeiinUK
      @MeiinUK 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That is not true. There are actual lots of old housing stocks, that is good and have decent amenities... which is NOT flats. These students, are basically supporting the economy by living in these kind of flats ????? And these flats is also what brought us down as well.. as a country... So.... Do not support it !

    • @stitchlover633
      @stitchlover633 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      w e f mantra you will own nothing and be happy its their plan to own everything

    • @TheSuperPsychoKiller
      @TheSuperPsychoKiller 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Landlords sit on their bums all day collecting money. It’s not a skill and it’s not a talent. They need to get real jobs instead of being parasites.

  • @kevinsmith6414
    @kevinsmith6414 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +36

    The biggest problem is how the government and councils have completely taken the landlords side. Landlords have to provide safe accommodation and used to have to abide by a huge number of checks and regulations but over the years the government and councils have turned a blind eye and constantly side with landlords on any complaints
    This country is so broken but instead of helping each other and fighting for each other, the rich and powerful just want us fighting each other and sadly they are winning so easily.

  • @anab0lic
    @anab0lic 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +82

    This country is so broken and non of the current crop of politicians are presenting actual viable solutions to fix it.

    • @abdullahahmed7781
      @abdullahahmed7781 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      oh bu- bu- but the IMMigrAnTS - lets pin it on them

    • @romrommi
      @romrommi 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      ​@@abdullahahmed7781Watch the old men flood this comment section to tell you how they are the problem

    • @johnsmith6503
      @johnsmith6503 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      ​@@abdullahahmed7781 It's caused by a multitude of factors. You cannot ignore things that make you uncomfortable.

    • @abdullahahmed7781
      @abdullahahmed7781 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      @@johnsmith6503 having a nuanced discussion which may after all involve immigration is good. The issue is how quickly the blame shifts to immigrants for a lot of things and the evidence for those claims are often deeply rooted in prejudice.
      And remember it is seldom the case where fault lies with Immigrants as a group - it is likely the result of policy failure from institutes or lawmakers. So sweeping remarks like “Send them back home” don’t lend credibility to your argument (even if they have merit).

    • @johnsmith6503
      @johnsmith6503 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@abdullahahmed7781 I completely agree although I sense a bias here. As humans we are prone to looking at difference in culture, associating this with skin colour etc and then forming an opinion based upon that. The problem lies when in certain important difficult situations, we try to counter this prejudice with a forced reluctance to acknowledge and talk about when our initial instinctive associations and biases are actually correct. The best way to deal with these situations is through facts and logic which I think there is a huge lack of from both sides. In the UK involving emotions in this is a huge issue. I am personally quite split on this issue for reasons too long to delve into in this already huge comment. But thanks for reading anyway :)

  • @sparkaltitude4763
    @sparkaltitude4763 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Top tip for students! Check if your landlord is accredited by your university. You can complain to the awarding body about the state of your house, or mention to the landlord that you expect your house to be in a better condition because of this certificate. It's the only leverage that I've been able to find.

  • @JohnDeBrazen
    @JohnDeBrazen 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +31

    I’m a student in Leeds. I went almost a month without a working shower and had to wash using a sponge and the sink. And I had a hole in the floor near my desk for 4 months. The company who rents out my room apparently isn’t the same as the landlord, the landlord just refuses to repair anything and I have no direct contact with whoever it is.

    • @MrSmith_
      @MrSmith_ 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Your landlord must:
      carry out important repairs in your home
      make sure your home is fit to live in
      You are responsible for any damage that you, your family or guests cause.
      Wear and tear caused by normal everyday living by the tenant does not count as damage.
      Your landlord should fix things that break through fair wear and tear.
      You should report repairs to your landlord as soon as you can.
      Keep records and evidence
      Keep records and evidence of the repair problem. This can help if you take further action.
      Proof of the problems can include:
      photos of the problem and any damage to your belongings
      emails, texts and letters to and from your landlord
      doctor’s notes if your health is affected
      Write to your landlord again
      Make sure they are aware of what the problem is. Send an email or letter so you have a record of it.
      When you write to them:
      remind them of their responsibility to do repairs
      suggest dates and times when the repair could be done
      tell your landlord the level of repair that you would find acceptable
      let them know about any poor quality or unfinished work that has not solved the problem
      Give your landlord a reasonable deadline to respond to your letter.
      Complain to the letting agent
      You can complain to the agent if you face unreasonable delays.
      You can escalate your complaint to the letting agent's redress scheme if you're not happy with their response.
      Contact the council's private renting team
      Your next step could be to report your landlord to your council's private renting team.
      Do this if your landlord or agent:
      delay repairs unreasonably
      do not respond or fix the problem
      The council's private renting team can help get your landlord to do the repairs and refer you for a home visit or inspection from the environmental health team if the problem is serious.
      Ask your local councillor to contact the private renting team on your behalf if you’re having trouble getting the council to do an inspection.
      It's up to you whether you tell your landlord that you are planning to report them to the council’s private renting team.
      It may encourage them to do the work but it could increase your risk of revenge eviction.
      If you arrange a repair yourself
      It could be risky to either do the work yourself or pay someone else to do it.
      You are responsible for the standard of work. Your landlord could charge you to put right any damage or further problems caused by the work.
      There’s no guarantee you will be able to recover the costs of the repair from your landlord.
      Deducting the costs of repairs from your rent
      Ask your landlord if you can do the repairs yourself and deduct the costs from your rent. Get it in writing if they agree.
      Some council and housing association tenants can use a process to pay for repairs and deduct it from your rent.
      This process is not recommended for private tenants. It does not stop a private landlord from giving you a section 21 eviction notice.
      Consider legal action
      You can take your landlord to court if they won't deal with repairs in your home.
      You should only consider legal action as a last resort.
      If you do take legal action, the court can order your landlord to:
      carry out the repair work
      pay you compensation

    • @MeiinUK
      @MeiinUK 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Use the Citizen's Advice Bureauu. If not, then report this to yuor local MP. Did you know that even as an actual student, you need to register, to vote as well ? Write to your MP about this? And let them deal with this. If it gets worst, then the council should and ought to prosecute them. That is how things were done before, and should be done as well.

    • @alexrobson3595
      @alexrobson3595 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      My landlord for my 2nd year uni house in 2010 had multiple properties along the south coast, Southampton Portsmouth Bournemouth etc, but whenever we had a problem he was impossible to get in contact with. Eventually found out that he didnt even live in the country and was actually based in Bahrain. Pretty sure in both my 2nd and 3rd year houses we didnt have a functioning boiler for multiple months, one of them we didnt have it for 5 months and that was over winter too 🥶

    • @MsTendus
      @MsTendus 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@MeiinUKmate the mp's are laughing at you

  • @Ananya_Kapoor
    @Ananya_Kapoor 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +74

    How is it fair on students whose parents are not able to pay rent on their behalf ? How do these poor souls get time to study after lectures when they need to earn money in order to pay for basic necessaties? The university fee never seem to take a dip in the current scenario. When will these students ever begin to live a stress free life ? What a shame!

    • @SSM12457
      @SSM12457 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      So true.

    • @rolandhawken6628
      @rolandhawken6628 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Well how about getting a job full time then studying at night , I did for years

    • @Ananya_Kapoor
      @Ananya_Kapoor 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@rolandhawken6628 Respectfully, which generation do you belong to Sir? It's apparent that even in today's time a student would like to opt for a university course to enhance their opportunities in the current job market which is already in recession like our economy. The precious years spent to gain a tertiary level of education encompasses shaping the confidence and personality of an individual. Not everyone becomes a millionaire with a chance idea or has supportive parents. Sometimes, the parents are supportive but not of adequate means to contribute to their child's further education. I strongly believe that the government must scrap the University course fee for British citizens. This would take some stress off their shoulders because the cost of living in the present day is outrageous. No one must work full time and be expected to study at night - you probably are/were resilient in yester years. All university students must have the opportunity to learn life skills, study, enjoy and relax at the same time - and not worry about the cost of living. Would you not agree that the coursework is taxing, then studying at night would only make a young person ill with mental health issues, strictly in my view!

    • @Ananya_Kapoor
      @Ananya_Kapoor 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@rolandhawken6628 Respectfully, which generation do you belong to, Sir? The times are different today. Most students are motivated to join a University course in order to enhance their opportunities in the current job market which is as bad as the cost of living crisis, in my view. The precious years spent at a University also helps young people develop essential life skills and become independent. If these students are expected to work full time and study at night, when would they get any time to rest. You must be resilient and probably persevered, however, I am concerned about their mental health taking a hit, thereby affecting their physical health these days in the competitive and fast- paced world we live in! I strongly believe that the Government must scrap the University course fee for the British students to give them breathing space. These young people need time to relax also which is my main concern, otherwise they will become frustrated and unfulfilled in life. Working hard is good but pushing someone's limits is not, again strictly in my view.

    • @m.cproductions3671
      @m.cproductions3671 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      @@rolandhawken6628you shouldn’t have to, just because you were forced to due to circumstance doesn’t mean the people living here in this country don’t deserve better. Don’t be bitter towards people who push for a better situation just because people weren’t successful in doing that back when you were younger.

  • @janearmstrong7945
    @janearmstrong7945 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +55

    Heartbreaking, it was fun being a poor student in the 90s. Your grant paid your rent and bills and most of your food. You could spend 15 quid on a week's food and the rest on beer. No one really had a job in term time, just working in the summer.

    • @PikaJess123
      @PikaJess123 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      In late 2010s I had a job in term time and was still broke lol

    • @edmundblackaddercoc8522
      @edmundblackaddercoc8522 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      90's was the last best decade for everything.

    • @sofiiamarusyn
      @sofiiamarusyn 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      And this is considered poor? Wow.

  • @janearmstrong7945
    @janearmstrong7945 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +42

    Here is what I mean by 90s old world student poverty. We lived in big nob off Victorian houses that were a bit run down but still basically grand. One of my friends had a massive, highly decorative Victorian toilet painted with blue and gold moulding and an oak seat. Yes, we were weeing on a toliet that was 120 years old, but it was so solid you could have pissed in it for another 500 years.

    • @pigknickers2975
      @pigknickers2975 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      We had a house like that in Archway N19. Actually had a sunken marble bath. All for £51 pw each.

    • @Jo-yp8wy
      @Jo-yp8wy 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      What a shame you neither learned how to spell or treat other peoples property with respect.

    • @pigknickers2975
      @pigknickers2975 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      @@Jo-yp8wy Utterly bizarre comment.

    • @Archman155
      @Archman155 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Jo-yp8wywhat are you on about? when did they ever say they disrespected the property lol.. unless pissing in a TOILET is disrespect to u

  • @GeoffreyHellington
    @GeoffreyHellington 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +38

    Big up the lad doing the interview in front of what can only be referred to as the kitchen table

    • @deleted4577
      @deleted4577 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

      Honestly it looked like that kitchen was at least somewhat recently refurbed... I have sympathy for students having gone through it myself but some live like proper mutants and then are surprised when their gaff gets mould or rats lol

    • @kennyelkhart
      @kennyelkhart 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@deleted4577 The kitchen actually looks good at a glance, but it must be impossible to keep clean in that state.

    • @jakb1202Youtube1202
      @jakb1202Youtube1202 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      spent ages looking for this comment

  • @corriedotdev
    @corriedotdev 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    Sounds like a lawyer could be making bank by creating a specialty FOR students against landlords exploiting students on a temp lease in unsafe housing environments.

  • @whatsahellhell
    @whatsahellhell 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    Thankyou for this, this is all over Leeds. It's not just that you can get a bad student landlord, but there isn't a single good one. Websites like Unihomes don't even tell you who the landlords are (intentionally), and the universities don't even advise about it. Absolutely mental.

    • @sirianofmorley
      @sirianofmorley 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      When kids stop destroying the houses maybe a landlord would invest.
      Why would I spend all the profit I made the previous year only to get it deleted by some drunken fools?

    • @thegrinderman1090
      @thegrinderman1090 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@sirianofmorley That's circular logic. You're assuming the landlords wouldn't just take more profit if they could. Why would the students give a fuck about a landlord who seems to actively despise and exploit them?
      Our rent was extortionate, and the lettings agency were predatory. We didn't damage anything (because we'd lose our deposits), but bills were included, so we used to leave the heating on full blast and the windows open every day, just out of spite.

    • @whatsahellhell
      @whatsahellhell 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@sirianofmorley I mean my student house is completely clean, clean it every Sunday. Seems like a stereotype that I'm ngl. Just because some students are messy doesn't mean you (or landlords) should assume all are. Also, with uni workload+ having to work, there's very little time to clean up. I dedicate Sunday to it, but I understand why people would be too knackered after working constantly all week.

    • @sirianofmorley
      @sirianofmorley 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@thegrinderman1090 Clearly you have no idea what being a landlord is like. You see it from the perspective of a penniless hippy and that's fine.
      The world isn't going to change for you, just learn how to solve your problems.

    • @sirianofmorley
      @sirianofmorley 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@whatsahellhell That's great, most of that sounds a whole lot like your problems.
      The landlord is providing accommodation via a business to make profit, not make your life cushy, ask your parents for that.
      Why didn't you check what life would be like before signing up to it?
      You will find a lot of dejected landlords with regards to repairs, stereotypes are there for a reason... Why are people scared of spiders? It's a good system.
      You might be clean but the next guy won't be with high probability. I aren't going to invest in something that has a high probability to fail.

  • @imapadlock
    @imapadlock 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +42

    Guy Fawkes was on to something 👍

  • @Miks2092
    @Miks2092 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +81

    Biggest benefits scroungers are landlords. They are living of taxpayer funds. Housing benefit and student loans!

    • @JD-hh2qb
      @JD-hh2qb 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The royals are the biggest benefit scroungers

    • @user-xu5vl5th9n
      @user-xu5vl5th9n 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You should check out the inflated pay of university vice chancellors which derives from the rigged market of higher education paid for by taxpayers and student debt.

    • @Gamer_Sebby
      @Gamer_Sebby 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      By your logic then people who run food banks are benefit scroungers.

    • @Zoe-rn1qw
      @Zoe-rn1qw 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Absolutely. Instead of building more social housing the govt are allowing private landlords to profit. Because they're their cronies after all. And it's all about lining pockets.

  • @hg82met
    @hg82met 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +50

    After 14 year of Tory governments, we're truly back to Victorian Britain living standards.

    • @josephrobinson6171
      @josephrobinson6171 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Victorian Britain living standards but without the great Victorian public works and infrastructure projects lmao. Can't even build a fucking railway or fix fucking potholed roads for months. On a busy A-road near me is a massive pot hole, deep too, that has been there for almost 2 years now. People literally have to swerve to avoid it cus it's on a bend. I bet all that land bought up for HS2 gets sold to land speculators too.

    • @gwynsea8162
      @gwynsea8162 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The Tories haven't helped but the previous lot weren't great either. Politicians are mostly fucking useless, it's just that the Tories are also corrupt. We need a big change to our political system. Which really needs to come from the youth. We need them to get behind the movements such as @garyseconomics to demand a better administration

    • @martinspeer262
      @martinspeer262 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Good luck with Mr WEF Keir Starmer. You think it's bad now..just you wait and see

  • @DCI-Frank-Burnside
    @DCI-Frank-Burnside 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    When I was a undergraduate in 2001 you accepted the shitholes because they were low cost and you could make them your own. My first rental in London I put the deposit and one week's rent in the landlord's paw and he gave me the key. In a relatively short space of time it's got so much worse. Now the shitholes cost two thirds of a low earners salary. Not only that, you're competing for the shitholes! Often with a thinly veiled bidding form. Then getting hold of the damn thing if the panel of manorial lords and financiers agree to let it to you, everything save a retina scan and DNA sample is required. It's truly depraved the current dynamic between landlord and tenant! I despair at the thought of it getting even worse, the reintroduction of prima nocti perhaps.

  • @Drenwickification
    @Drenwickification 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    I realy think there should be more of a focus on not going to uni straight of of school at 18. I ended up doing a degree I didn't really want to do, just because I had no idea what to do at 18. I really believe this is true of many other people, but they go to uni regardless because it's seen as the thing to do. I think working for 2-3 years, saving up some money, mayve travelling around the world for 6 months, then going to uni with a much better idea of who you are and what you want to do, and you'll have more money, is a lot better.

  • @caffs7777
    @caffs7777 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +40

    We should be ashamed that we aren’t giving our students more support financially. £35k debt after 1 year at Uni. Daaamn!! If we used to be able to fund full degrees for all our young people, and Scotland is able to do it for their people, it should be in place. No questions asked. I’m 39 now and quit university after the first year as I couldn’t survive financially on the little money I received. Wouldn’t be able to afford to eat most days. That was was over 20 years ago, and I only just finished paying back that student loan last year!! I can’t imagine trying to do that now. We are depriving so many people of a fundamental right to educate themselves to the highest level they can achieve. It benefits society on the whole having an intelligent population. I wish Labour hadn’t scrapped abolishing tuition fees. Just one of many u-turns unfortunately. It’s such a depressing situation right now 😢

    • @harambae7014
      @harambae7014 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      That's the thing though, I dont think the goverbment can afford to cover all tuition fees. Scotland can largely due to their state coffers being subsidised by English taxpayers, and England used to be able to because the number of people going to university was much smaller. Blair changed that culture by encouraging anyone and everyone to go to university to the point having a degree became a prerequisite for jobs that previously never requested them (and have no reason to require that level of education).

    • @not_ever
      @not_ever 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @ae7014 You think this because of propaganda and Tory dishonesty.
      "Student loans in England are expected to cost the government an extra £11bn a year as a result of higher interest rates massively increasing the cost of borrowing, according to analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
      The IFS said the huge additional cost was not reflected in either of the government’s official measures of the cost of student loans. “This means that the loss of more than £10bn is not being captured in official figures,” it said." - The Guardian
      The government and/or the taxpayer will make a loss even on loans that are repaid in full according to the IFS. If the government properly funded English and Welsh students they'd probably be better off but certainly no worse off than now.
      Regarding Scotland. "Scotland paid more per head into the coffers of the UK government than Britain as a whole in every year from 1980/81 to 2011/12" - Channel 4. This is based on a study from 2013 hence the reason it stops at 2011/12 but it's safe to assume that it is a trend that continues as the money comes not from the Scottish tax payers but from the oil and gas industry. In any case, your English pounds are not subsidising Scottish education. They're probably subsidising the failure of a student loan system.
      You are right about Blair but the snobbery about vocational education and apprenticeships is older than he is. He was trying to level the playing field and make higher education more accessible. He should have tried to destigmatise career paths that don't require a degree and improve access to a wider variety of higher education pathways than just university led degrees.

    • @caffs7777
      @caffs7777 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      @@harambae7014 I get the point you are making, but do not buy into the "no money" lie. It is a political choice not to fund it. They could easily find the money if they wanted to.

    • @tialahharris4030
      @tialahharris4030 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@caffs7777 I somewhat agree, but the long reign of the conservative government has striped Westminsters money through a collection of poor choices, lots of corruption and fraud and also general on going situations such as Brexit and Covid. So actually, there is a lot less money left than there used to be, and a lot of it has already disappeared. Maybe they could have found the money before they lost it, but I don't see England being prosperous again for a while now, or the government having enough money to properly fund education, NHS etc.

    • @matthewburns7989
      @matthewburns7989 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      The boomers really did have a lucky break on this. They had a decade or so of difficulties (40s/50s) but they’ve repeatedly been treated quite nicely by governments throughout their life owing to their birthdates and circumstances of the political and social environment. There was the post war boom, then there was the privatisation of housing and ability to buy housing at cut down prices, then there was the gold plated pensions and triple lock, I’m sure there is more. And of course they had access to quality higher education for free when they were young.

  • @alm1261
    @alm1261 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +36

    And then you come out with a very expensive piece of paper, just to be paid minimum wage anyway.

    • @mattb6704
      @mattb6704 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Disagree the ones going to uni will earn more in future having a better quality of life. Don’t go and end up stuck in the minimum wage rut.

    • @jakesmith-bs4jd
      @jakesmith-bs4jd 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@mattb6704Lol

    • @alm1261
      @alm1261 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      @@mattb6704 20 years ago maybe

    • @hamtaru
      @hamtaru 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@mattb6704currently searching for jobs as a masters student and how i wish that were true

  • @JApl1n
    @JApl1n 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Last year our flat had dozens for viewings for a few months and we asked the lady who worked for the letting agency why there were so many viewings. She then said the landlord had increased the asking price per year by £3k in one year, they told him it was way too high but according to her he said “They’ll get desperate”. To be fair, they didnt have e viewing for 3 months so they lowered it slightly but thank god we got out of there, the boiler was older than the person who had to replace it.

  • @Sharpe2007Dent
    @Sharpe2007Dent 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

    I had to use a massive overdraft that took years to pay off, and ALL of my maintenance loan to pay rent at uni. I had to work all summer to save barely £2k that had to last me all the 12 months til my next summer job to live from, for a few months my weekly food budget was £5 a week and not eating.
    All to live in a very meh place but apparently we're all lazy layabouts wasting money.

    • @MuswellMunky
      @MuswellMunky 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      That's 'the system' working like a well oiled machine, unfortunately.

    • @stitchlover633
      @stitchlover633 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      how very sad its an absolute disgrace

  • @taranjk1
    @taranjk1 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +70

    I literally can't pay for my uni accomodation without occassional money from my grand parent, which not everyone has.
    Not only that we've complained to our landlord multiple times about problems with our house and they have done nothing. When I moved in there was black mould in my room.
    I'm eating just cous cous and broccoli every day with not much meat, my diet is fucked because I can't spend money on healthy food and also not to forget any medicine I am taking.
    I can't spend money socialising, or going to clubs.
    what the fuck is the point, I might as well stay home with parents and work at fucking anything instead of being at uni.
    The tories and labour have made it impossible to have cheap affordable housing, to rent and buy, with universities dying and becoming more and more private.
    no ones also talking about how the government just removed the 30 year dept relief for student loans, for the next generation, it's just becoming american and I swear to god I am going to commit anti-government acts if they keep on destroying this country, would be more preferable than dying slowly in a world not worth living in.

    • @Norfolkandchance886
      @Norfolkandchance886 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      It's got nothing to do with the current government it was Blair. He changed the school systems to push every kid to go to uni.
      Uni ain't suitable for everyone. Blair made it so no companies would ever have to pay to train staff. I'm 37 and apprenticeships were pretty much impossible to get then so god knows how bad it is now.
      I would have killed for an apprenticeship. I knew uni was not for me but I remember at school even then every kid being pushed into going to uni.
      Plenty of courses are never going to end up in a job and it's a massive industry.
      I had to work my way up right from the bottom. It took a long time and it was grim. On the other hand no debt and now I earn a fair bit more than lots of middle class professions.

    • @caffs7777
      @caffs7777 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

      @@Norfolkandchance886I think you’re missing the point here dude. These kids aren’t wanting to leave uni because they decide it isn’t for them. They are having their hands forced because they can’t afford it. If you’re well off, great! I’m glad you have support. If you’re from a poor background, you’re pretty much fucked.

    • @MrSmith_
      @MrSmith_ 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      @@Norfolkandchance886 It wasn't just Blair, it was preceding governments are also to blame. They contributed to the shit that we're in. Housing stock was not replenished, prices were forced higher due to the lack of supply and they created a high-demand economy for properties. Student fees were not meant to be what they are now but successive governments post-Blair have increased them exponentially.

    • @Kieran0
      @Kieran0 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @msulman2646 I get where you're coming from but I completely disagree dude.
      I am a similar age (35), I have a good job (was earning 6 figures by the time I hit my late 20s), I wouldn't have that job if I hadn't been to university.
      I grew up in a low income household, without Blair changing the system to allow me to go to university I wouldn't be in the position I am currently in.
      I simply wouldn't have been able to go to University, not because I wasn't smart enough, because I wouldn't have been able to afford it. That's utterly unfair, Blair fixed that system and despite all the other dodgy shit he did, I'll forever be grateful to him for giving me that opportunity.
      Since then, Uni fees have been changed, now students leave riddled with debt, rent is extortionate, bills are crazy... they're fucked.
      I sometimes think about the 16-18 year old version of myself who is out there somewhere who doesn't have the same opportunities that I had and it genuinely pisses me off, the current and future students have *less* opportunity than I did 15 years ago and that's bullshit.
      We've gone backwards.

    • @harambae7014
      @harambae7014 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      ​@@Kieran0It's a trade-off that was made. You experienced the benefit, and hopefully down the line most students will aswell, but we're also seeing the downsides. Because the number of people going to university increased massively in a relatively short time it outstripped the growth in housing stock near universities, so rent prices are able to increase to stupid levels while landlords neglect maintenance because of the supply and demand equation. Also with more and more people going to uni it became unaffordable for the government to subsidise (or completely cover) everyone's tuition fees due to the sheer scale of the numbers, so the students had to start taking more of the burden themselves.

  • @_hunu
    @_hunu 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +70

    6:20 He's going to get a sad shock when he realises that these problems are present in private rental properties that aren't for students too.

    • @Michelle-go6cc
      @Michelle-go6cc 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      My first flat with my now husband had mushrooms growing in the downstairs bathroom (not there when we viewed it obviously). We left after 4 months, paid the rent till the end of the 6 month shorthold tenancy agreement. The letting agents were apologetic but stuck as the landlord refused to believe there was an issue. You could get environmental health involved but that is long winded and back then you would just get a section 21 notice. We moved to a lovely little flat that was the same price but in a much better area.

    • @braddersjunior5342
      @braddersjunior5342 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I disagree, same way when you go to buy a car, you should do the same due dilligence on the landlord as we aren't all as useless as ones as in this video. A nice landlord is worth every penny as you both help eachothers situation.

    • @leiabuscus
      @leiabuscus 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@braddersjunior5342 that may be true but a good landlord is hard to come by. Always hear the horror stories. heard very few people being happy with their landlords

  • @mystic_mimi21
    @mystic_mimi21 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    First year I only had single glazing in my student accommodation. Second and third year I had damp and mould in my room and was told it was my fault, I had to clean it. I would message them every week and nothing happened in two years, then when I moved it they blamed me for it and kept my deposit for it. Our boiler kept breaking it and we had to re-pressurise it twice a day We didn’t fight it as it wouldn’t be worth it. And this was the nice are, nice house. We were/are tidy, no issue people. The previous tenants were so messy when we looked round, we spent a week cleaning it when we moved in and a week when we moved out and still had our deposit taken.

    • @Fury9er
      @Fury9er 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      A lot of them consider that the deposit just belongs to them. I had a work mate who rented a terraced house with his family for easily 1/3rd of his wage, when he moved out they made up some tosh that he broke the boiler. He argued, and they didnt bother to reply after the 30 day contest window so he got his deposit back - they knew it was lies and just hoped he would roll over.

    • @PikaJess123
      @PikaJess123 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I don't honestly believe they ever give anyone their deposit back. I and nearly everyone I knew would leave the place cleaner than they found it (other than things you can't help like if theres already a mold issue when you move in) but deposit never returned

  • @ShuntKrunt
    @ShuntKrunt 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    When I was at Uni less than a decade ago, you are expected to find your next house within the first month of moving in to your previous one. You get very little choice even if you are quick and left with awful places if you wait just a little too long.

  • @jonsmith5058
    @jonsmith5058 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    This isnt only students, but I think they get to worst.
    I lived in some shitholes in my very early 20’s when all my mates were students.
    Landlords in general need to have much more penalties to not fixing things.
    There should be a social insurance fund for this where urgent things get repaired, if the landlord doesnt pay the property is forfeit.

  • @majesticmythology
    @majesticmythology 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Only go to uni if your career requires it. If you don’t know what to do, don’t go to uni! Get a job and some experience and figure it out. Uni is not worth it in too many cases.

    • @mightyheights7331
      @mightyheights7331 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      💯

    • @shaun522
      @shaun522 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      tbf I'm only at uni because it was either that or homelessness

    • @kanatsizkanatli
      @kanatsizkanatli 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@shaun522a brick layer starts on 30k and will soon get up to 60k. an electrician earns more per hour than a doctor, why waste time, just find a trade you like and get on with it

  • @gaz9957
    @gaz9957 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Student accommodation really should require a licence that links with educational establishments. If a landlord accrues too many unresolved faults then they lose that licence to rent out to students - good luck renting out an 8 bed house in the general rental market. As a thirty something year old, it just seems so easy to financially take advantage of young adults first moving in to the rental market so I think it needs special consideration.

  • @andyreynolds6194
    @andyreynolds6194 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    It makes me realise how exceptionally lucky I was that after my first year I was able to move into a shared house that was owned by a good friends parent and his partner. They charged fair rent and invested it into the house. They did a ‘surprise’ inspection one day to find the kitchen in a bit of a state after a party and then next day there was a brand new dishwasher delivered to us.
    So incredibly lucky as my friends had some incredibly dodgy land lords.

  • @gdwlaw5549
    @gdwlaw5549 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    My French daughter simply canceled her Erasmus in Bristol last year! Week spent in Bristol looking around , the disgusting behavior of the architecture school, the money we will never get back, the shit food……

    • @dwoolwichpoly9086
      @dwoolwichpoly9086 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Why the F*CK did she EVER consider such a sh*thole for Erasmus?!!!!!!!???? Don’t get me wrong France is another sh*thole in itself so it isn’t exactly like she is in a better place already but why trade a bad place for another bad place? Somewhere like Switzerland, Bosnia and Herzegovina (believe it or not), lithuania, latvia, Portugal, Italy are countries that would make the most sense for Erasmus considering Asia and USA are out of the equation
      I moved to UK with my family as dependents of my dad, which is an expat, back in 2013 when I was a kid and even when I first landed we all said “what is this sh*tty place?”. And I come from Kurdistan in the Iraqi region…
      Europe is nothing like the movies promised and hasn’t been for a long time. And immigrants got very little to do with it

    • @Elcore
      @Elcore 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      UK hasn't done Erasmus or Erasmus+ since 2020... how was your daughter still on it in 2023? Genuine question.

    • @peepslol5716
      @peepslol5716 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Sacré bleu!

    • @gdwlaw5549
      @gdwlaw5549 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@Elcore some universities managed to continue with Erasmus . This is still the case for languages students. I met a UK national doing an Erasmus course in Berlin on Friday. Our efforts go back to 2020/21. It was quite obvious that all the accommodation had gone to far east ( mainly Chinese) students. As for paying the NHS yearly fees up front …well….we will never get that money back. Read the small print and it’s quite clear !

    • @Elcore
      @Elcore 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@gdwlaw5549 I see, thanks for explaining.

  • @cptadb93
    @cptadb93 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    It’s because the government is trying to bring in as many international students as possible, without the housing stock available. In 2014 when I was a student, I paid £265/ month, and the house was clean, and I had a good landlord. Also my maintenance loan was enough to cover everything without me needing to work (although it was still tight even back then).

    • @aidenwinter1117
      @aidenwinter1117 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I don't think that's that big of a factor though, many international students live in expensive 3rd party student accommodation anyway

  • @JoJoHebadubus
    @JoJoHebadubus 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    It's an absolute joke, and it does effect studies. Its interesting to watch the discourse on this, as a lot of the people defending this bullshit are those who haven't been to uni, or went decades ago. It's also not 'foreign students', most internationals live in the Uni accommodation which is often way too expensive for most students regardless. The deposit fees made us cautious, so it's rarely shit tennants, although they do exist in a minority.
    I was lucky with mine and it was through the church, a lot of people had crumbling, chipboard furnished, leaking houses, many of which were owned by investors from far out of the area and managed by a property agency that did not care. That's not even hyperbole, anyone who has gone to Uni will be familiar with places like the ones in the video, and they will likely know a few places like that.
    It comes down to people buying a three bed terrace, converting it into a four/five bed, letting someone manage it and it's job done. The Unis need to step up as well, most of the accommodation provided by them are exorbitantly expensive in comparison to a student house.

  • @Angela-wi7sq
    @Angela-wi7sq 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +34

    I have real sympathy with students who are struggling financially and it was sad to see the young woman talk about the financial choices she has to make if she wants to do something nice and simple like seeing a film. I think it's important to be able to afford small joys in life and to be so young, have those squeezed out, and be in so much debt is sad. I say that as someone who has degrees, works f/t and pays 50% of my income in rent - so I know what it's like when you don't have very much money for fun despite working f/t. All that said, I live in a student area in the North West - I'm not a student - and the anti-social behaviour from some groups of students is bad. There seems to be a proportion of the student population who have a LOT of money to socialise and their behaviour causes a lot of problems for non-student residents who work f/t (rubbish issues, sleep issues etc) where I live. I'm curious as to whether Ed's looked at the distribution of income within a student group? And how much that varies? Does it reflect inequalities similar to those in the general population? It's also long past time that substandard landlords were subject to far more regulation.

    • @owengrove5089
      @owengrove5089 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      This is because some students will get 4k in maintenance (what I got last year in my final year), where others will get around 12k depending on their circumstances. Rent was around 5k-10k per term where I studied, therefore some students have ridiculous amounts of disposable income they know they will never pay back whilst others are out of pocket.

    • @johnfisher697
      @johnfisher697 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I worked in HE for 10 years the worst part for the young women who have money issues are the ones who do "Favours" for Landlords and Parlour "work" TO MAKE ENDS MEET.

  • @CombatKing1237
    @CombatKing1237 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I dont know if its still the same but 3 years ago at Teeside Uni there was decent and fair prices student accommodations, id double check now tho. Woodlands halls was the one i stayed at.
    hopefully this helpes someone

  • @LilyRoseKnits
    @LilyRoseKnits 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I graduated in 2020 and it's already so much worse than it was. In terms of why student landlords are so bad - I think it's because they have no incentive in keeping you as tenants. Most people only rent for two years and there's a constant influx of new students needing somewhere to live.
    The estate agent I used in my second year (first year outside of halls) didn't even meet half the legal requirements they had, but we just didn't know because we'd never rented before. They never answered emails or even picked up the phone, you had to go harass them at their office to get anything done. They didn't even do the basics of giving us a gas safety certificate, which is a legal requirement for renters. They didn't give a shit when our heating wasn't working and we had to contact the landlord directly, who thankfully did want to help us. Estate agent then turns up months later to show people round the house and asks about the heating, pretending to care. When he steps out to take a call (leaving me to show the students round, which was his job!) the students asked me about him. I told them the truth and told them to avoid that estate agent. The following year I wouldn't even consider a house with that estate agent, no matter how nice it was. We decided to pick a dump that was cheap, because most places were dumps covered up with a lick of paint and suddenly start to crumble around you. At least we knew what we were getting into, and had some spare money to actually enjoy life a bit.

  • @Chippeddiamonds2
    @Chippeddiamonds2 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +32

    Government needs to bring in:
    - strengthened renters rights and enforced quality levels for rented accommodation
    - rent controls (tied to minimum wage / average wage in an area)
    - a limit to number of properties a person can own.
    - prevent companies from purchasing/owning residential properties.

    • @JD-vq7ln
      @JD-vq7ln 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      Completely agree. I have said housing caps for ages. I understand a second home or holiday home l, but some people legit own over a hundred properties. How can anyone afford one when landlords buy them all and drive prices up.

    • @ecnalms851
      @ecnalms851 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Agree except with rent controls as that will cause less rentals to be available. But then again it might force the government to help more and build more housing but overall I think rent controls are an awkward policy.

    • @Kerygmachela
      @Kerygmachela 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      A limit to the number of properties a person can own wouldn't work. Companies own the properties and people own companies.

    • @Chippeddiamonds2
      @Chippeddiamonds2 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Kerygmachela good point, added another.

    • @Chippeddiamonds2
      @Chippeddiamonds2 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@ecnalms851 rent controls would make “investing” in property less attractive (beyond owning the one you live in) which would allow more people to buy their own and allow those who do rent out to do it at a fair rate rather than the currently overinflated one.
      There would be fewer rental properties out there. But that would be easily filled by government built / owned properties being rented out at cost via a social housing scheme. But the pressure for that comes afterwards, getting the government to implement it is the hardest part then navigating a way to bring it into impactful measure and the solutions to the downfalls of it come after. Likely they’d set the cap to an unreasonable level to begin with just to say they brought in the policy and win votes.

  • @michaelle-baigue2751
    @michaelle-baigue2751 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +47

    And then they wonder why working class kids just stick to working class jobs.

    • @pjl8119
      @pjl8119 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      Do they? I'd say the polar opposite was true.
      Why would the trades have to pay such high wages if there's millions of working class kids trained in construction and trades?
      Simple supply and demand tells you why wages in trades are so high. They aren't able to get the people.

    • @Norfolkandchance886
      @Norfolkandchance886 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@pjl8119it is and it's not. When they say how much trademen earn its relative. Most are self employed so you get paid okay but you have hard times where you need the extra money.
      They were constantly reporting about skills shortages and again it is true but only in certain areas. I just had 3 months sitting at home with no work at all. That's expensive! Oh and forget about a mortgage your not going to get one.
      Long hours and dangerous work. 600 construction workers committed suicide last year. It's the industry with the worst mental health rates. The only people making money are the housebuilders!

    • @Norfolkandchance886
      @Norfolkandchance886 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      ​@@pjl8119your point was true however and I should have added that. I just think it's fair to say Its something I know a lot about and I would tell my kids the same as what my dad told me. Study hard at school!

    • @Ephesianssixtwelve612
      @Ephesianssixtwelve612 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@pjl8119apprenticeships are thin on the ground so I think by working class jobs they meant the low paid, low skilled jobs like shops/warehouses/coffee shops/factories etc

    • @kanatsizkanatli
      @kanatsizkanatli 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Norfolkandchance886 i would advise my kids, find something you enjoy and never look down on the trades

  • @Brynson87
    @Brynson87 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I graduated in 2013 with a BA and an MA. I couldn't get a decent job - overqualified-lack of experience trap (despite the fact that I had worked since the age of 14). I went abroad and taught English for a decade. Now, I have zero debt, healthy savings, no student loan and finding a job is no problem. I am completely financially free and I can leave the UK anytime if things get dire (yes, I am married with children). I would highly recommend this to some of these young people post-graduation, particuarly the sweet young lady with glasses. There is hope, I promise you, you just need to be bold and look further afield for opportunities.

    • @tiakore7524
      @tiakore7524 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It's just a shame the only opportunity further afield is teaching English.

    • @Brynson87
      @Brynson87 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@tiakore7524 it is a shame but I didn't do my research before choosing a degree. I just followed my passion which was dumb.

  • @clarkeysam
    @clarkeysam 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    When I moved into one of the flats I lived in as a student, I was reassured that the flat had been professionally cleaned. I walked into my bedroom and there was an open page from a broadsheet newspaper with a single dreadlock lying on it. It was clear that the flat had not been checked, nevermind cleaned!

    • @not_ever
      @not_ever 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I found a used condom on my bed when I moved into my first student house. The wallpaper used to peel off the walls because of the damp so we blu-tacked it up again.

  • @albertodecaro38
    @albertodecaro38 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I studied for three years at Bournemouth University. Being Italian, I couldn't get any maintenance loan. I had to work full time for three years, luckily in an amazing local restaurant that helped me a lot, boy economically and mentally. Having maintenance paid and having no need to worry about living, with practically no responsibility, should make life easier. Going back to the housing, it's now worth getting a student hall accommodation rather than going private, which if you think about it, it's bonkers.

  • @georgeknox1822
    @georgeknox1822 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +109

    The council needs powers to confiscate these sub standard landlords properties .. then they will stop .

    • @dickiemckay
      @dickiemckay 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Great idea yeh

    • @JMFe95
      @JMFe95 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      When so many people in government are landloards themselves, why would they do this?

    • @ldn876
      @ldn876 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Leeds city council has and does.

    • @MeiinUK
      @MeiinUK 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@ldn876: So get your parents to vote against these people ! Take Leeds apart !!! FGS !!!!!.... This is the power of politics ! Why should some of these major cities be allowed to get away with it ??? Have you guys lost your mind ??? Cos you are basically supporting those actual "developers"... from carrying on the weight of the debts !!! I have heard that Nottingham council is going to go down the pan, and be bankrupt. So how come you students DOESN'T do something like, go study in Nottingham instead? USE your choice, and MAKE it a political one ! Let those buildings, actually BE cleared ??? In fact, quit this year, and TRANSFER !!!!! Go and check out Nottingham, and phone and ask them, if you could transfer your years over ABC... due to the fact that, you want to reduce the costs etc etc... And consider living one year out only, and the rest of the years in, or at home ???? You should NOT carry 30k debts on your shoulders !!!! I only went to uni which had 1 hour drive from home. Very very few Londoners.. come up North to study. They only do it, cos it is cheaper than London as well. These decisions, you NEED to consider it... Move to a more expensive city later on. But not otherwise.

    • @martinlanigan803
      @martinlanigan803 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      And drinking water out tap tastes like shite even when its boiled english contractors see building work cowboy jobs im not paying anymore water rates water taste like shite im going to talk to manager in ancher housing about this not going to pay any more water rates for drinking dirty water no wonder i have bad stomach

  • @lesleyhubble2976
    @lesleyhubble2976 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    They’re moaning about the accommodation, but none of them have made an effort to wash and tidy up.

  • @dwall2
    @dwall2 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    it kinda bothers me how badly the students look after their property too though, full of old food, dirty dishes shit everywhere... no wonder they get mice and mold.

  • @sirdetmist3204
    @sirdetmist3204 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Its almost like we need to do away with supply and demand and fix prices. Land lords need to be told what they can charge and it needs to be inline with peoples wages. So that means a 60% price reduction in most property around the country.

  • @gamingbytetv665
    @gamingbytetv665 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    There’s no excuse for the state of the properties, but there’s also no excuse for not knowing what a bin or washing up liquid is either.

    • @chrismason7272
      @chrismason7272 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Yeah the houses are in a poor state but it is clear that the people living in them are also slobs so are certainly not helping the situation.

    • @gamingbytetv665
      @gamingbytetv665 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@chrismason7272 Exactly, and the excuse that “oh we don’t know how to look after a house” is a cop out. When I was at uni you wouldn’t believe how many people didn’t know how to complete basic tasks like empty a blocked hoover, or boil an egg. So they’d live on toast and pot noodles because their parents never taught them how to cook. I mean that one girl said “oh I’ve got £10 for food this week so I can go out to the cinema” like how the fuck is that your priority? 😂

  • @verzrc2772
    @verzrc2772 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I’m a student in Manchester right now- I get maximum maintenance loan, almost £11000/year, and live in the cheapest property I could find at just under £130/week. With just my maintenance loan I can just about afford to pay rent, bills and buy food and my repeat prescriptions but anything else is out of the question beyond drinks or a film once a week. Due to the state of nhs dentistry this also meant that I recently had to go into extra debt for emergency private dentistry which I’m still struggling to pay off. I feel luckier than students with lower loans that I can actually afford to survive but I also know I’m going to be in over £60,000 debt by the end of my degree which I will likely never earn enough to pay off. It sucks to be a student right now basically.

  • @Jack_Fatcat
    @Jack_Fatcat 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    My carbon monoxide alarm went off in my student house I told my landlord and they told me to go to bed and they'd have a look tomorrow....

    • @kanatsizkanatli
      @kanatsizkanatli 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      wow that is criminally negligent, you clearly survived but that was incredibly dangerous from them

  • @mothman9003
    @mothman9003 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    me and my mates have managed to get a nice (if small) place for the coming academic year, thank god. however, we saw some absolutely _vile_ places whilst house hunting a few months back. mould everywhere, worrying cracks, infestations of many kinds that we only knew about after talking to some previous tenants by pure coincidence, and that's just to name a few egregious examples. it's shocking just how horrific some of the dwellings that student housing companies let first time renters live in are. we had to really, really search to find a decent company to go with, and it's well known to students at my university that there's certain companies you avoid because of their predatory practices. such a shame

    • @mothman9003
      @mothman9003 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      also to add on to the food prices as a student. i buy basically the same (minimal but as nutritious as i can get) groceries every week and yet the price of it altogether has gone up by over a third since the start of the academic year. it's absurd. i just want to eat well enough that i can actually focus in my lectures and when i'm writing- that shouldn't be such an ask

  • @MrLockie7
    @MrLockie7 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    As long as the Colleges only incentive is to get as high a percent of their student going to uni to please parents on open evenings then students will continue to be miss-sold the university dream. And on top of that in a lot of industries the value of a degree has been reduced so much you’d be better of working your way up.

  • @hrakss7605
    @hrakss7605 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Crazy, i live in denmark and i get paid to study! It covers all my rent + other expenses. Theres no need to have a job. The rent is high but atleast the state covers it

  • @nancyhood8395
    @nancyhood8395 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Bad landlords and bad tenants, hurt the good landlords and good tenants,
    Why the law can't be changed and specify these problems puzzles me ,blanket changes on all landlords, and all tenants makes it more expensive for all and doesn't punish the people that should be !!

  • @00wil77
    @00wil77 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Thanks again, Ed. Had 2 kids both in 2nd year, one at Abertay in Dundee (in fairly shit private halls that was about 7k per year, who has now dropped out this year due to shit living conditions,) the other in Bristol, paying £570/month for a damp shoe box, where the rent is going from £570 to £700, a new kitchen (probably costing a total of £2k from Howdens) being the justification. There are 5 rooms in what would have been a 2 2/1 bed house. Fucking dog shit for them. They're getting rinsed, saddled with something to the tune of £57K worth of debt by they're like 23, and not too hot prospects for the future, given the current outlook, apart from being wage and debt slaves for the foreseeable. Absolute dog shite.

    • @00wil77
      @00wil77 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      .. my son's landlady has five similar properties in the area of Bristol, taking around what will be £3.5K/mth per property. I checked it out on Rightmove, his specific house has increased in value by around 600% in 20 years, probably due to the rental income it can generate ... totally fucked up.

    • @MeiinUK
      @MeiinUK 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@00wil77: LOL...... you guys wanted to do digital... lol.....

    • @00wil77
      @00wil77 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      there is a year between them, can't say I planned it or anything, on either occasion!
      It's nuts tho' landlords are artificially inflating the value of their stock by price gouging rents, that;s not just bad for students. ... £17, 500.00 a month, gross income off 5 mediocre at best houses for basically doing the absolute barest-minimum-of next-to-FA ... not only that, her small portfolio of houses are 'worth' somewhere in the region of £3.5 Million for, again, doing exactly pretty much jack shit to maintain them. Why should she, if there's no incentive to do anything or any form of regulation? @@MeiinUK

  • @Fry2000
    @Fry2000 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Yes the students are living like animals, but look at the structural defects of the properties they are being housed in, where is the incentive to clean up dishes and put them inside a mould infested cupboard, these issues are not unique to student accommodation but are sadly widespread in the private rental market as well as in housing association properties (especially with the issue of mould). On maintenance loans / grants due to cost of living and extortionate rents its obvious that many students are not coping even with having part time jobs on the side, I am sure some students are misusing the funds they are given and given it is reasonable sums being given out, the lack of accountability on how and where the money gets spent does amaze me, with respect to solutions we need regulations on private rental which have some teeth to them, universities should themselves build accommodation for students to stay in and the concepts of student and maintenance loans needs abolishing maybe in favour with a graduate tax of sorts, scholarships offered by the universities, the removal of the cap on no. of medical students and regulation on the salaries of University Vice Chancellors.

  • @hdk11
    @hdk11 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I used to be a student.. we absolutely wrecked the house within 3 months of moving in. I felt really sorry for the landlord. We even made a hole in the roof as someone climbed on the roof and jumped on it till it fell through. Not one of us ever cleaned anything. Well done to the young lad in this video who admits to this.

  • @nitomurray6137
    @nitomurray6137 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I feel the students could of at least made the effort to clear up the 9 vodka bottles before the interview.

    • @YHIEEDC
      @YHIEEDC 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I understand students enjoy to party but atleast make a good impression!

  • @PikaJess123
    @PikaJess123 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Sounds about right. I had less than £50 a week left from my loan after rent in Manchester 2016. There were rats in the uni accommodation and I was never compensated for it. I always kept everything clean and tidy. £140 a week. Heating you could only turn on for 30 mins at a time. Impossible to focus on studies so I wished id have stayed home.

  • @HocksEvan
    @HocksEvan 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    A big factor forgotten currently is the oversubscription of universities due to covid grades. i know my course went from about 80 to 200 students. Student infrastructure is already poor but that increased demand has just caused everything to skyrocket. Hope that things settle down as us covid students leave

    • @PadHicks
      @PadHicks 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It was really remarkable how COVID boosted the brains of our younger generations. Not enough is spoken about the benefits!

  • @livpeake8108
    @livpeake8108 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    yep being told to demould a house that leaks and buy my own demoulder stuff there's a whole ecosystem that won't go away. the boiler has broken for the 3rd time since the tenancy started

  • @judebutler535
    @judebutler535 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    I went into new student purpose built accommodation the other day in Liverpool, as part of my job. They each had an en-suite room and a shared kitchen area with new appliances. These opened in Sept 23. Jesus Christ the state of them in just 6 months. Sticky floors. Surfaces greased and stained. Mould in the fridge, food way out of date to the point of being penicillin experiments………this would have been lovely clean new accommodations. The students have made it look this way, it was worse than a homeless shelter due to them not cleaning them. They need to realise mumsey is not there to pick up and clean there crap up!!!So they can stop moaning!

  • @sebluketravis2438
    @sebluketravis2438 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I graduated in 2003. For 5 years (2 college and 3 uni) I worked 30 hours a week at Tesco and Ticketmaster (some weekends included). I paid off my student loan at 38, but I still had some of the best years of my life, especially the House scene in Manchester and Sheffield in late 90's early 00's. Wouldn't change it for the world.

  • @lifeinvader2039
    @lifeinvader2039 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    The information in this video is decent. They should go into detail about student accommodation and why it is limited.
    A major contributor is non-home students such as Chinese. In the student accommodation I live in (which is really good and had none of the issues that those guys had) has 80% Chinese students. If there was more control on how many foreign student uk university could take that would help.

  • @calum5975
    @calum5975 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    They changed the single parent rule for the loans when i was in Uni. For 3rd year (2021) my loan halved as they started to take into account my father's income. Neither parent financially supported me, so to have my loan dropped because someone ive never relied on was suddenly expected to pay for my living was well, extremely difficult. Lots of sleepless nights. Id already signed a rental contract too by that point.

  • @inghell
    @inghell 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

    As much as I sympathise with the living standards of these students the way they are living is unbelievable bad. It’s a complete lack of maturity to not clean up after yourselves. I get it’s a shit hole in the first place but make an effort to clean up.

    • @wirralwontshe7809
      @wirralwontshe7809 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      100%

    • @moonanoke9872
      @moonanoke9872 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      That's how the brits are, and then they are blaiming the immigrants and government for the state od their country

  • @control2XS
    @control2XS 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    In my second year (about a decade ago now) our landlord decided the kitchen needed renovating. So for 8 months of our 1 year contract our kitchen was entirely unusable whilst they were working on it. We asked for compensation, given we had payed for a full flat with a working kitchen, which isn't what we had received for the majority of our tennancy, and his response was "you are already getting compensation, you're getting a new kitchen!" (baring in mind it was finished maybe a month before we moved out, having been entirely unusable for the best part of the last year...).

  • @attackman4458
    @attackman4458 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    When i moved into a terrace apartment last year they hadn’t even finished building it‼️ - by the time they were supposed to have finished 😂
    So my kitchen was nonexistent with wet cement on the floor and builders wondering around the apartment at random times of day. They had rushed all our rooms with nails left scattered over the floor which is an actual safety hazard. And the landlord didn’t even offer compensation‼️ - we had to threaten legal action which he initially refused and bragged that he had layers.
    The Tories have ruined this country for 12 years its ridiculous

  • @carpNcoffee
    @carpNcoffee 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I've been repairing student living in Leeds for years now. It's a mix between lazy students causing the issue, a severe lack of common sense, not opening windows, leaving food on the side etc. Then the landlords not willing to pay for the repairs required. Then moving day, 1 day to get out, clean, tidy, remove all their left rubbish, quick refresh if the landlord will pay for it. New tennant in. Revolving door.

  • @Dave_1985
    @Dave_1985 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Looking at their own mess in the background, you wouldn't want them in your house. Look at the piled up sink 😂. It reminds me of when I lived with a masters student. So intelligent, I had to teach her how to use a mop and bucket.

    • @AAR004
      @AAR004 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      ah yeah mate, damn them for not doing the dishes, ignore the fungus, black mould and the fact the boiler's broken so no running hot water to even clean the dishes. Defo the students fault not the exploitative and extortionate landlordism

    • @Dave_1985
      @Dave_1985 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@AAR004 I'm currently challenging my landlord about all sorts of issues. I just had an inspection regarding my complaints. I think the inspector was looking for my faults but couldn't find any. If you're going to complain, make sure you're sorted and give them nothing.

  • @Oakeybloke
    @Oakeybloke 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    My niece wanted to go to Kingston uni, but said the accommodation would cost more than her student loan. I asked her about halls, and she pointed out that's what she was talking about 😳
    Universities are failing students massively, all the way to the bank.

  • @grantm6933
    @grantm6933 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I have sympathy with these students, but seriously, you have a media crew inside your house and you didn't even bother doing the bloody dishes or throwing away old food? For goodness sake.

  • @sapps851
    @sapps851 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The fact that our government, for decades now, do not invest in the higher education of the future workforce, but rather introduce them to indebtedness as soon as possible, tells you everything you need to know.

  • @mattwest4326
    @mattwest4326 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I'm a landlord and this blows my mind! The amount of insurance and certificates you need to get to let a property is crazy, this property cannot be legal. Insane that this lettings agent is allowing this to be let out as they're also at legal risk.

    • @Elcore
      @Elcore 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Letting agencies are the most profitable, lowest-effort scam per brain cell that this country has seen in over 100 years.

    • @lukewilson8084
      @lukewilson8084 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      and if people complain about their landlord, its section 21 and find somewhere else to live... Landlords hold all of the power as the supply is far less than the demand. They'll find new tenants who wont complain and pay even more.

    • @mattwest1277
      @mattwest1277 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      A section 21 is simply the quickest way of getting someone out of the property if you need the property back i.e to move in or sell. Although despite being a 'no fault' eviction it is usually for a reason, as going through the specific process for a non-payment of rent eviction for example is a longer process than just issuing a section 21.
      Landlords of business people and generally do not evict tenants that pay their rent on time and look after the property they're in, the fees that they incur when changing tenants really don't make it viable to keep chopping and changing. Believe it or not it's actually quite difficult to find good reliable tenants.
      However I appreciate that there are always going to be some dodgy landlords out there.

  • @ziggyzaggyshaggy8312
    @ziggyzaggyshaggy8312 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    When I was in my second year me and some friends ended up in a house that below the standard of what we expected. At the time there weren't alot of general rules for HMOs. After many back and forths and a fight almost breaking out we left. 6 years later I end up in court about it. Fortunately I won due to the landlord going against court orders and paying late, so managed to get it dropped. No one should have to put up with bad accommodation. The fight might be long and hard but it is worth it

  • @Thai.Farang
    @Thai.Farang 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Meanwhile, if you arrive in a dinghy you get a hotel room (with meals, medical and dental care) for free. Welcome to the UK.

  • @19Allan91
    @19Allan91 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    The cost of student accommodation is ridiculous.
    When I was at uni, my accommodation was not as bad as shown in this video, but having 4 of us living in a 3 bedroom house and all of us having to pay the entirety of our maintenance loan on rent alone was absolutely crazy. We were young and naive, but we were also robbed and taken advantage of by our landlord (which was sometimes the uni depending on the location of the house).
    I think you really should have spoken about how much they are paying in rent and compare it to how much regular rented houses cost.

  • @kennwan9917
    @kennwan9917 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    The amount of people I know that went to distant unis just to get away from mum and dad is baffling. That was a bigger factor than the actual facilities or quality of the university. Unless you're the next Einstein, go to your local university. Problem solved.

    • @boostbaa2882
      @boostbaa2882 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Real 😂

    • @SannaMaria-xs3wk
      @SannaMaria-xs3wk 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      But if you’re going to pay £9k a year, you want a uni that offers you job contracts, placements, experience, networking opportunities and travel abroad as well as just genuine name value and better quality of teaching.

    • @kennwan9917
      @kennwan9917 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@SannaMaria-xs3wk all a myth fella. Ones I know that went up and down country now work in places like tesco fruit and veg isle. As I say, unless you're the next Einstein, none of that is relevant.

  • @NiceWorkLad
    @NiceWorkLad 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I started uni in sep of 2020, i was on max loan and worked full time hours (40+) during the summer. Gave me just enough to not work while at uni. looking back now and seeing my uni experience completely mirrored in this video makes me really sad how much time people have had to give just to stay afloat. Leeds is by no means an expensive place to live but the amount of people i know who had to work while at uni and still have 60k debt just shows how bad the situation is. also that 7.6% interest really is the cherry ontop

  • @DizzyK1D
    @DizzyK1D 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    “wHy dO u pUt uP wItH iT” like what else are they supposed to fking do they havent got a choice

  • @KeithApp
    @KeithApp 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I left university more than 15 years ago and thought it was hard then when the fees were £3000 per year. £9k per year is insane. I honestly don't think I could do it had I been born 15 years later.

  • @Calum_S
    @Calum_S 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Looks like nothing has changed since I went to Leeds 25 years ago. The quality of the housing stock was terrible then and won't have improved in the meantime.

  • @JosephByrne
    @JosephByrne 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I was fortunate to live in Garden House when I was at Leeds. It was a block managed by Unipol and it was more like living in yuppy flats. We had loads of fun and it was good value too. When I visited some of my friend's gaffs they were right dumps. Kitchen in the basement and decay everywhere.

  • @archi7889
    @archi7889 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    What we need is a student rental union where addresses and complaints are logged and tracked for tenants, and warnings placed against property with bad history and issues. The student rental union badge of honour placed on good property's with good landlords.

  • @tarana9329
    @tarana9329 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Some of this is awful and the landlord/agents are clearly taking advantage of young people- I noticed many places are student rentals only- but mould doesn't come from nowhere. It's usually from drying clothes inside and never opening the windows. Tenants are meant to maintain the house not hang around like it's a hotel.

  • @TCHHCTN
    @TCHHCTN 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    My first Uni house had a mushroom in the toilet and black mould all behind one of the beds, they'd only painted over where the bed wasn't. The guy living in that room got migraines all the time. I had a huge chunk of mouldy stones rot from the ceiling and almost land on my head while I was sleeping which could've broken my nose. Once the landlord tried to show me how to use the radiator and the knob pinged off when I twisted off and he accused me of being the one who did it... Then they tried to take the WHOLE deposit because of "drug stains. on the carpet" the carpet was from the f*****g victorian age mate... There was rats and the cabinets in the kitchen were falling apart. We took them to court and got the whole deposit back!

  • @JD-vq7ln
    @JD-vq7ln 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Not just student landlords, young professionals too. Just graduated cant afford my own house, and in a 7 bed property we all paying 750 per month, we dont even have a living room.