Mexican student caught in accommodation crisis may have to go home

Alma Yasbeth Pacheco Correa: 'I have not made my final decision yet to go home but if I still don’t have somewhere by Wednesday, I will have to go home.' Picture: Moya Nolan

A Mexican student who was asked for an intimate photo of herself by a landlord who also did not return her deposit after changing the terms of their agreement, fears she will have to return home to Mexico within days.

Alma Yasbeth Pacheco Correa, 31, had secured rental accommodation in recent weeks for the current academic year on condition she provide care to an elderly person.