Survey: 78% of students worried about being able to pay rent

Threshold says it is aware of landlords who are asking students to pay two, three, or more month’s worth of rent as a rental deposit - on top of the standard first month. File Picture/Pexels

Seventy-Eight percent of Irish students are worried about their ability to pay for their accommodation ahead of the new academic year, new research has revealed.

National housing charity Threshold, together with the Union of Students in Ireland (USI), today published their Student Housing Survey for 2020.