The ‘dire’ student housing crisis in Manchester is ‘only going to get worse’, a property expert has warned.
There are 4,000 more students than there are rooms available in halls of residence, shared houses, and private purpose-built student accommodation, new data seen by the MEN from StuRents, a student property search site, shows. That’s a gap of seven per cent.
To compound matters, four in five newly-built student rooms cost more than the average maintenance loan. Of all student accommodation in the city, 37 percent of rooms are out of reach to the average student.
