Incoming York fresher forced into private housing after uni ‘ran out of accommodation’

Everyone knows that going to university is a huge step in most student’s lives; it can be an incredibly exciting time, but it can also be very stressful for freshers.

Accommodation is one of the things that foments everything. You make friends with your flat, cooking together, partying and even drafting bin rosters together.

However, Hannah, an incoming fresher explained she was told the university had “run out of accommodation” after she missed the deadline for guaranteed college rooms.

She explained the stress of finding accommodation at the University of York and how she’s had to find private alternatives which have turned out to be a lot more expensive.

Hannah said she was ‘so stressed’ continually checking her emails

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Replying to @Jessticles forgot to mention that when we called the lady again she said look at private accom bc i wouldn’t be getting anything. but another guy told us to just wait for the uni given ones. #fyp #uniofyork #freshers #universityofyork #accomodation

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Due to start in a matter of weeks, Hannah explained that she accepted York as her insurance choice after not getting the grades she wanted.

She explained that she was already upset, processing the fact that she wasn’t going to the university she wanted to, didn’t get the grades she wanted, and then on top of that, she was having to sort out accommodation, with very few spaces left.

Hannah acknowledged that she didn’t read the email outlining the guaranteed accommodation deadline, which was July 31st, but was distressed to learn that she would have to wait for all clearing students to be allocated accommodation first, and then she would be offered any of the leftover rooms.

Unfortunately, Hannah was informed that there was no rooms on campus left, so she would have to seek private accommodation, which is upwards of £200 per week.

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The University of York offers information about private sector accommodation on this page, detailing the student’s choices of either going through a letting agents, or staying in purpose built student accommodation. This purpose built student accommodation has an average rent of £250 per week , and even those have starting running out of rooms for students.

Accommodation in York is an average of £206 per week

A survey conducted by StuRents’, a prominent student accommodation listing site, revealed the top 10 most expensive uni cities to rent on, based on the average rent of accommodation in the city, including halls of residence and private accommodation. York ranks third at an average rent of £206 per week, just behind Bristol at £215 per week, and London at £296 per week.

With the average maintenance loan in 25/26 being just £7,907, students and their families are expected to cover the shortfall, it once again highlights the problem of money when entering higher education when from a lower-income background.

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