Glasgow University to increase rents by nearly 10%

The SRC said the increase could mean that some students would pay 87% of their student loan on rent.

"We believe this is a flawed approach which disregards the social responsibilities of the university to provide adequate and affordable accommodation." "There is already a lack of affordable accommodation in the city, which led to us running our campaign for the university to, so for them to now propose raising rents by almost 10% - it's hard to believe.

From April, private landlords can only increase rent by a maximum of 6%, or 50% of their increased costs - whichever is lower. However this does not apply to purpose-built student accommodation.A spokesman for the University of Glasgow said that student security and welfare, as well as providing high standards of accommodation, was the university's priority.

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