85% of students won’t get student accommodation
A recent survey from the Norwegian Student Organisation shows that below 15% of Norwegian students will have an opportunity to live in student residence this year.
The country’s student housing venues have only the capacity to accommodate 14.5% of students, according to figures from the Norwegian Student Organisation (NSO) survey. This, despite the fact that one in four students want to live in a student residence, according to Statistics Norway’s (SSB) Living Conditions Survey of 2010.
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The student welfare body in South East Norway have the lowest coverage in the country, and are only able to accommodate 12.02% of registered students. In Oslo, there are now 6,551 students waiting in line for student housing. The number is a record high.
Even if new student housing is built, the number of students is increasing, which means that the deficit of affordable housing continues to increase.
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‘There are still more than 14,000 accommodations left, even to reach the goal of 20% of students being able to live in student housing.
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We hope the government will go even further this autumn, and will meet student requirements of 3,000 new student housing places.
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A safe housing situation for students gives a better day of study,’ said Mats Beldo, chairman of the Norwegian Student Organization.
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He believes it’s important to invest in student housing, as the private rental market is still under a lot of pressure.
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‘We fear that some students have to say no to study because they don’t want to get in over their heads,’ Beldo told Aftenposten
newspaper.
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© NTB Scanpix / Norway Today
