Computer-generated image of newly built Amnis House student accommodation on Western Road in Cork city
Next Thursday.
At 11am, in Cork city.
Students are planning to hold a protest to highlight a lack of affordable accommodation outside the newly built Amnis House student accommodation complex on the Western Road in Cork city.
Joe Leogue, in The Irish Examiner, reports:
UCC Students’ Union deputy president Kelly Coyle said the housing situation in Cork is at “breaking point”.
“The situation is at breaking point and students cannot take any more.”
Ms Coyle said the demonstration will focus on Amnis House in protest at the cost of rooms, ranging from €210 to €225 a week, in the student accommodation complex.
Students to protest over ‘breaking point’ rent levels (Joe Leogue, Irish Examiner)
Pic: Uninestudents
“Our worry is when more private student accommodation buildings come on the market in the next couple of years, they will all be charging the same amount”
The economics of supply and demand would suggest otherwise.
and d’ya know
that depiction there
if its a good likeness like
could easily have managed another 3 or 4 more floors
Exactly. A big part of the problem with supply is the restriction on building heights which are regarded as perfectly normal everywhere else.
these hysterical students are getting sillier by the day
basic understanding of free markets and economics and they would realise this building will ease their plights, unless of course their true desire is a cultural marxists type pipe dream where they can fart about such costly buildings for free
Or they are justifiably highlighting the extortionate rents that they are being charged.
(The govt. gave these developers tax breaks and streamlined planning processes to provide fit for purpose student accommodation. Why are rents way above affordable the price range of the very vast majority of students?)
Moronic comment. Students aren’t looking for free accommodation, they’re looking for AFFORDABLE accommodation.
It has that sharp pointy bit just like the Civic Offices – you could put someone’s eye out with that.
nothing sharp in Dublin City Offices. NOTHING/