Final year students at the University of Edinburgh are staying in bunk beds in a converted common room in uni halls of residence due to the city's housing crisis. Fourth year students said the only thing which made the situation tolerable was sharing the experience, and begrudged being asked about their A-Level results by overexcited freshers wanting to go for hikes up Arthur's Seat.
Several fourth-year students are sleeping in bunk beds on the ground floor of multiple different accommodation blocks in Pollock Halls, after approaching the university for help when they were unable to find private accommodation. The university insisted that all students who were living under this accommodation arrangement had now been offered a “permanent room at the university”, but a number of students remain in short-term accommodation, it was understood.
Edinburgh Uni says that students are charged £9.60 for these arrangements, including bills, breakfast and dinner, and five students are living in one room on the ground floor of Turner House. Some students have declined this offer because rooms have been offered randomly across the campuses, with some offered accommodation beyond their pricing budget, and others facing complete separation from their friendship groups.
