As accommodation crisis continues here's helpful tips to quality student housing

Helen O’Callaghan learns why research on housing is more important than ever

TALK to anybody working in the third-level student accommodation sector and the story’s the same — there’s a crisis.

“There’s just not enough of the traditional-type student accommodation,” says Union of Students in Ireland president, Annie Hoey. She points to a seemingly hopeless mismatch in the supply/demand ratio — over 80,000 students in Dublin and just 3,000 beds in purpose-built, on-campus accommodation.