USI calls for national accommodation monitoring

National monitoring of rented accommodation is necessary to protect students from unscrupulous landlords and poor living conditions, it was claimed today.

USI calls for national accommodation monitoring

National monitoring of rented accommodation is necessary to protect students from unscrupulous landlords and poor living conditions, it was claimed today.

The call by the Union of Students in Ireland was made as housing charity Threshold published its annual report, which showed only 7,232 of an estimated 150,000 rented properties were inspected by local authorities last year.

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