Don't be too picky if you get student housing

Pursuivant · Post by **Pursuivant** » Wed Jul 15, 2009 12:52 pm

http://www.hs.fi/kotimaa/artikkeli/Opis ... 5247664134
http://www.iltasanomat.fi/uutiset/kotim ... id=1710539

As it says "first year students won't get studios". And the "free market" prices are hittin over 400. Once you "get in & settled" you then can start looking for something better.

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lmtduffy · Post by **lmtduffy** » Wed Jul 15, 2009 3:01 pm

I know a first year, albeit Erasmus student who got a studio,

and once your settled in you cant start looking for something better ans the contract cannot be terminated.

onkko · Post by **onkko** » Wed Jul 15, 2009 3:17 pm

lmtduffy wrote:I know a first year, albeit Erasmus student who got a studio.

I know lottery winner.

Pursuivant · Post by **Pursuivant** » Wed Jul 15, 2009 3:51 pm

Orgasmus students come only for 1/2 year or a year. As compared to real students who come for 3-4 years.

Upphew · Post by **Upphew** » Wed Jul 15, 2009 5:05 pm

onkko wrote:
lmtduffy wrote:I know a first year, albeit Erasmus student who got a studio.
I know lottery winner.

Pushers give freebies too, junkies pay the full price.

Vesper · Post by **Vesper** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 1:38 am

ummm, I translated the article on google, but somehow I'm still lost. So, there is no 'rent control' to student housing? and the prices increase a bit more if the demand is high? I wasn't sure what they meant as 'bed-sit' and is 'cell room' suppose to be studios? or the rooms without mini kitchen and a bathroom? I'm not sure how they could promise new students housing by October if less students are will to rent in the city apts.

Oombongo · Post by **Oombongo** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 9:55 am

Good mother nature...how are these poor souls gonna eat?

Rip · Post by **Rip** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 10:25 am

soluasunto ('cell'), is a quite traditional mode of student housing in Finland. You have your own room (shared rooms don't exist perhaps anymore, there still was in the previous decade), but share a kitchen and in most cases bathroom/toilet (and some additional common room) with perhaps 3-6 other occupants.

There are "student housing foundations" who offer more affordable housing, but availability in the Autumn can be insufficient. If you rent from the private market, you (or your parents) pay what the flat owner asks. Assumption (and experience from previous years) that the availability of housing improves bit later in the Autumn is presumably based on the fact that while almost everybody starts their studies at the same time (there is a sharp peak in the need of flats at end of August - beginning of September), people graduate, or move out after getting a job or getting married through out the year - or after a while waiting and searching manage to rent a shared apartment with a few friends.

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