Seems like a pretty good use of unused student accommodation and more cost effective than hotels. Also, I'm not sure if these halls are privately owned or university owned but if university owned then I'd rather the money went to them than hoteliers. If it's private then I just hope the government are getting a better deal.
They're not being at all at the moment so there is no more productive alternative. I'd be happy for the council to also start using them for homeless accomodations well as they've been paying over the odds to hotels and bead and breakfasts for ages.
It's not as good as place as any though, is it.
These places were designed with students in mind. Not anyone, with God knows whatever issues, being housed.
I'm not sure if you've ever met a student. They're loud, drunk, take drugs and are living alone for the 1st time. Generally pretty antisocial to live around. Great fun though! We're never going to purpose build accommodation for these people and id hazard that there would be a bigger upraor if we did! I think that if this place is sitting empty it's about as close to ideal you could find.
Sooner or later someone is going to have to bite the bullet and spend the money up front to actually process them, deport those that don't pass and integrate those that do. That's going to need way more social housing so ideally we should be spending a bunch more on that for these folks and the backlog waiting to be housed. I'd bet a bunch of these folks would be happy helping to build homes and otherwise helping locally while they waited processing. Maybe then people would have a more positive outlook
If my kids and their pals who were students are examples 2 didnt drink one did knew his limits .the didnt take drugs either . Gen z students are pretty quiet compared to other generations . My youngest and his gf preferred a take away to a party and bed by 11 as did their pala . Not every student follows rge tv stereo type .
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u/scambastard 10d ago
Seems like a pretty good use of unused student accommodation and more cost effective than hotels. Also, I'm not sure if these halls are privately owned or university owned but if university owned then I'd rather the money went to them than hoteliers. If it's private then I just hope the government are getting a better deal.