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PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – MARCH 13TH 2010
TROUBLES WITH HOUSING ACCOMODATION FOR FOREIGN STUDENTS IN THE NETHERLANDS
Utrecht – The Netherlands, March 13th , 2010
In the Netherlands, a lot of foreign students are facing problems with their housing accommodation. In Rotterdam, students are sleeping in cars, tour caravans, hostels or expensive flats.
Foreign students in other cities are dealing with the same problems. In Groningen, a student has been living in the back of his car for three weeks. 70 students in Wageningen are lucky enough to have found a housing accommodation, but at a 30 kilometer distance from their school. And even then they’re sleeping with six students in three rooms.
Housing accommodations are dealing with a lot of parties and there’s no central organization working with them. According to Lisa Westerveld from the National Student Union, various city’s deal with different kinds of problems and offers for housing accommodations. ‘ Some city’s choose to help their own students first. Foreign students will then be placed in containers.’
Remco de Maaijer, director of Kences, The grouping of students housing says that is it very difficult to find cheap rooms for foreign students. He is afraid that if the problem isn’t solved quickly, a lot of foreign students will leave the Netherlands.
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Contact:
Renee Manders
HU Trajectum
renee.manders@trajectum.hu.nl
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BeantwoordenVerwijderen- the sentence: "And even then they’re sleeping with six students in three rooms" is incorrect I think. I should say: And they even have to share a bedroom.
According to Lisa Westerveld from the National Student Union, various city’s deal with different kindS (I think you should write it without a S) of problems and offers for housing accommodations
Larger hostels usually provide better amenities, including meals, wireless internet, and laundry.
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