![]() ![]() The 22-year-old has spent four years in student accommodation experiencing mould, rats and periods of no hot water or heating. Just like Maisie, fellow NTU student Isabella Voice, also knows just how hard it is to get housing problems fixed. Maisie and her housemate had to make repeated calls to their agent just to get promises of help. Maisie Edmond’s housemate had to dispose of her suitcase after discovering it covered in mould (Credits: Maisie Edmond) Her house’s mould problem left one person’s suitcase looking more like blue cheese… it went in the bin. “Our safety has been put under threat with lack of a perimeter and me and my housemate are breathing in mould daily.” Maisie said: “It’s been especially difficult as students under an agency which isn’t especially for students, when we’re paying as much as everyone else but because we’re students, we get put on the back-burner. A fence which was promised to be fixed by the time they moved in during July, took until the end of October (Credits: Maisie Edmond) Not only did she and her flatmates have to make multiple calls to get their property secured with a new fence… and a TV signal.īut they also battled mould and rising damp. Nottingham Trent University student Maisie says this academic year has been a shocking crash course in dealing with housing problems. Students are consistently let down by their landlords while paying increasing rent and bills. Our Project Winter survey asked students to share their experience of life during the cost of living crisis. When she moved in and a fence panel was missing allowing people to wander into her garden, she thought her landlord would fix it.īut students like Maisie across the UK have learned the hard way that getting a landlord to fix an urgent problem at your accommodation is not always easy.Īnd it is affecting students’ mental health. When Maisie Edmond’s student house had the TV aerial stolen, she thought the landlord would fix it.
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