2023-08-09 14:39:17
Faced with the lack of public housing, it is the private sector that dictates its law, with rents averaging around 600 euros in Brussels, which makes them totally inaccessible. “Me, I mightn’t take a kot in Brusselsexplains Ajar, a student forced to give up her initial project. Accommodation here is way too expensive and I have two brothers. Take a kot for me and a kot for my brothers, it’s complicated.”
These situations have been worrying the Federation of Francophone Students (FEF) for several months. “What we are asking for is to have a grid that sets a maximum price for owners, to avoid abuseclaims Emila Hoxhaj, the president of the FEF. The price of these accommodations must remain affordable. We are still talking regarding a right to education and a right to housing. And above all, what we are asking for, in the longer term, is to have more public housing stock, to have real democratic control over these prices, to be able to house students according to their means..”
And there is urgency because by 2030, it is estimated that there will be a shortage of at least 90,000 housing units to accommodate all the students in the Wallonia-Brussels Federation.
According to the study Kotkompasthe number of students might increase by 20% by the end of the decade.
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