{"id":302,"date":"2011-09-06T17:28:58","date_gmt":"2011-09-06T17:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/three-month-rent-demand-an-extra-burden-on-students\/"},"modified":"2011-09-06T17:28:58","modified_gmt":"2011-09-06T17:28:58","slug":"three-month-rent-demand-an-extra-burden-on-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/three-month-rent-demand-an-extra-burden-on-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Three-month rent demand an extra burden on students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: large;\"><strong>Three-month rent demand an extra burden on students <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">Sinn F\u00e9in\u2019s education  spokesperson, Deputy Se\u00e1n Crowe, has criticised third level institutions  and landlords of purpose-built accommodation for charging students  three months&#8217; rent in addition to a deposit at the start of the first  college term.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">Deputy Crowe was speaking after  being contacted by a number of irate parents who are struggling to meet  an initial payment of \u20ac2,500 or more at the start of the first college  term, to cover their children\u2019s rent and deposit fees. <\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">Deputy Crowe said: \u201cIn these  difficult times more  families are struggling to make ends meet. It is  unfair that many third level institutions and landlords charge students  three months\u2019 rent to cover the first college term. This is on top of  the deposit and is hard to justify, particularly at a time when college  fees are rising.<\/span><span style=\"font-family: serif; font-size: small;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">\u201cThis excessive fee is putting a  huge strain on many low and middle income earning families. It is an  issue that education minister R\u00faairi Quinn must address. <\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">\u201cAdditionally, many landlords  refuse to return the deposits of student tenants. Recent research by the  USI found that without any justification, 40% of students had their  deposit withheld and over 60% have had over \u20ac200 unfairly taken off  their deposit. <\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">\u201cThe deposit paid to cover  potential damage to student accommodation is usually over the top  anyway. In respect of campus accommodation, college authorities have  many other ways of dealing with vandalism, including expelling students  if they are found to have behaved inappropriately.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">\u201cThis excessive charge on students  seeking rental accommodation must be brought to an end as it is  creating yet another barrier to low and middle income families accessing  to third level education.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three-month rent demand an extra burden on students Sinn F\u00e9in\u2019s education spokesperson, Deputy Se\u00e1n Crowe, has criticised third level institutions and landlords of purpose-built accommodation for charging students three months&#8217; rent in addition to a deposit at the start of the first college term. Deputy Crowe was speaking after being contacted by a number of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}