In this instalment of artefact of the week, Chess Bradley examines the once halls of residence and brutalist monstrosity, The Tower.
Liv Clarke and Emily Broncz examine the current state of Fallowfield and ask whether it falls out of favour with older students
Hundreds of students living in un-safe accommodation due to defective cladding
Caps on rent and strict regulations are in order because student housing is “way below standard,” Andy Burnham tells The Mancunion
New research shows that student rents are continuing to rise despite controversy, with Manchester averaging a 7 per cent increase over the past year
For years there have been rumours of knocking down the Owens Park Tower, but it now appears these plans have been officially set in motion
Every year students are being scammed, but what is anybody doing about it?
Fresh new halls are filling the huge void left by the emptying of the Owens Park Tower at the start of this academic year. Mansion Point is the latest of these additions to Fallowfield life, offering a renovated Allen Hall, the old postgraduate accommodation on Wilmslow Road, from the beginning of next academic year. It’s […]
First year students at UoM are demanding compensation after finding their flat crawling with cockroaches
We can stand by the sad state of student accommodation no longer
The University of Warwick has a shortage of accommodation for postgraduates and freshers, as they experience a rush of EU students pre-Brexit
Following a five-month rent strike in protest of extortionate student accommodation, UCL students have secured promises of bursaries and rent freezes
In the three years between 2010 and 2013, student rent prices rose at almost double the rate of the wider rental market. The NUS is calling for rent controls to combat the “crisis”
