"Student housing costs up sharply, NUS survey suggests"

Heres a news article regarding the expensive prices of student housing!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8584415.stm

"The average cost of university accommodation has risen by 22% in the past three years, according to the National Union of Students (NUS).

The survey of 132 university and private sector landlords found the average weekly room cost had risen from £81.18 in 2006-07 to £98.99 in 2009-10"

Unite accom ''virtual tour''

Unite Accommodation!

Pictures from Unite Accommodation Website
Showing images from The Anvil, and The Forge in Sheffield

These Halls range from £91-£99 a week!!!


Typical Unite Kitchen:



Typical Unite Bedroom:




Typical Living area, Open plan, with kitchen:

As we can see; the quality is very basic, low standard, cheap furniture, and very small living space, for the price students pay! = RIP OFF :)

Fonejacker - Monies

Change to style

Influences..

Alan Berliners' : Nobody's Business (1996)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117196/

http://www.alanberliner.com/flashdev3/viewing.html

Channel 4 Series. Fonejacker

Phone call to Unite

As Unite haven't replied to our email we sent, we then decided to ring them up and try arrange an interview to see what they had to say. Heres a short script of what we planned to say during the phone call.

''Hi, we're making a film regarding student accommodation. We've interviewed some of your tennants and there have been complaints regarding your prices.
We are giving you the opportunity to express your side of the story which will be recorded for our film.
Would you like to arrange an interview with us?''

Having tried to arrange an interview over the phone, no one was willing to speak to us regarding the topic and kept redirecting us to other offices.

Unite: 0800 783 4213

Sheffield Unite... 01132 426135

Head Marketing Department Bristol... 01173027046

Email to unite

Hey sorry took so long to put this email on that we sent to unite was trying to find it in my mailbox, still no reply from them yet though.

To whom it may concern,

Hi my name is Sam Parker, I am currently a second year student at Sheffield Hallam University and studying film and media production. For our latest project we have been asked to make a documentary that is within the public interest, being students we decided to tackle the issue of student acommodation prices. we decided to look at both student and private sector letting agents to find out who offered the better deal for students. upon our findings we found that your company is one of the most expensive.

From this we decided to speak both past and present tenants of your acommodation to see wether they thought you acommodation was worth the money. From this we discovered that not all of them were entirely satisfied with the service that is provided by you. We would very much like to hear your views on the issue as to your pricing structure and to the standard of your acommodation and allow you to have an input into our documentary, unfortunately we discovered you were not the only company that didn't provide adequate service or value for money and we as students feel we deserve a better standard of living especially for the amount of money we are spending on such service.

We very much looking forward to hearing a response to this email and hopefully shed some light on the disillusionment we feel as students on the current issues.

Yours Faithfully

Sam Parker