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Uk University Students Wasted £ 1bn in a Year on Empty Accommodation By Rachel Hall February 17, 2021 
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“We won’t be cash cows’: UK students plan the largest rent strike in 40 years By Tom Wall December 6, 2020 
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under way or being organised on campuses,
been growing since hundreds of hall
with activists at both Oxford and Sussex
residents tore down fences erected to
universities this week signing up hundreds
prevent them moving freely around the
of students ahead of the new term. Other
campus last month, intended, according to
institutions also preparing action include
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grassroots group that is coordinating many
government’s staggered return, which will
of the campaigns, said students were fed
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colleges are so rich they absolutely have the
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means to make rent cuts and ensure staff are
been trapped on campuses so universities
not laid off,” said Laura Hone from Rent can collect rent and fees.”
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become particularly stark in the context of
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reduced funding from central government.
the country were about more than disruption
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staff, but universities are not going to come
of the inadequate maintenance support
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have to make them listen and rent is the most
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operations, including hall rents, in the last
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is really picking up speed,” said Saranya
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in the university’s halls. “We are going
students whose health has been impacted.
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provide further reductions, but students
president, Larissa Kennedy, said students
can decide to break their accommodation
had been encouraged to move into halls
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because universities were heavily dependent
on rents and tuition fees. “Students have 
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working tirelessly to ensure that living on
were told campuses would be safe and there
campus was possible during the pandemic.
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days of arriving, many found teaching was
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