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Student union-president Helena Schofield wants to, housing companies, to be flexible, have to say about the rent for absent students

a Student leader in England, the full rent should not be calculated in the next Semester on the University of white space from the Corona-Virus shutdown.

But in privately Run accommodation in Portsmouth , student is said, you need to have the payment hold.

What has upset you is the more that The Block has not been completed In Time for the autumn time and the students had to go into temporary accommodation.

property of Prime Student Living, Says students are still paying obligated to.

points, you are still get their loans.

"Where The Situation is so unprecedented, it should be a little more understanding," Says Helena Schofield, President of the National Union of Students at the University of Portsmouth .

The Student block in Portsmouth was not ready when the school year

Manisha Singh , Says with a masters degree in criminal psychology at the University began, it feels like students "exploited".

she is a resident in Stanhope House, a student residence block managed by Prime Student Living.

Due to delays in the completion of The Building , she spent most of the time for The First term in temporary accommodation and now a term threatens to be closed, with the campus, because of the coronavirus.

This was "upsetting and pressure," she Says . And she is angry that you continue to pay the rent, for a room that cost almost £10,000 for the year.

Yusuf Ahmed , Says the study in Petroleum Engineering ,: "you asked me more flexible, if you have been delayed. "

And now he thinks that the property company reply should and will be able to release students from the contracts rather than pay, up to The End of the annual contract in September .

Manisha, Says the students should be able to get to The End of their contracts during the coronavirus crisis

Eva Crossan Jory, NUS Vice-President, Says in the exceptional circumstances of the pandemic, there is a "moral duty" on the housing market to give companies the "option of a non-penalty, early release from their contracts".

The University of Portsmouth has turned to teaching allowed online and has students in the University's own accommodation to The End of contracts, how many study from home.

But it has no control over private student buildings.

The University, The Student and the local MP Stephen Morgan wrote private accommodation company asks you to "do The Right thing" and to allow the students, their leases early.

But Prime Student Living refused and replied: "leases are to remain in force, and the students are obliged to continue to pay the remaining rent. "

The property company has highlighted that the students receive their maintenance loan and, therefore, should be able to continue with the contracts they Signed .

Robert Milne, Says The Student -housing sector needs more

regulated by Another student who Says in Stanhope House, Robert Milne, it was the knowledge of numbers "very annoying" rent", I'll never go Back To this room."

The construction delay, the affected Stanhope House was part of a wave of dozens of shell-systems, the left, the left students in the lurch in the past year.

Mr Milne is studying property development, Says The Experience makes him think that student accommodation is in need of a tightening of regulation, because currently "it is students, who are the losers are".

"It has grown so rapidly and regulation has not kept pace with the expansion," he Says .

The University of Portsmouth is a waiver of the rent in the next term, in his own accommodation

Professor Graham Galbraith, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Portsmouth , called on housing providers to which students at The End of contracts, and thus have the certainty that you want and need," in a time of hardship and misery.

Across the country, it is a mixed picture, with some students able to cancel rent-free periods, while others keep to pay.

According to The Student housing charity, Unipol, over 60 universities in England have agreed to waive rent in the University's own accommodation in the near term.

Others have yet to decide to, or could, make the students to pay more.

a Lot of student accommodation is privately Run , and some of these companies are, in order, the students pay more.

Unite, one of the largest private provider, Says : "We are not collecting any further payments from students who decide they do not want to return for the summer semester. "

But this depends on The Student , notification of Clubs, from 17:00 on Monday 13 April.

Private housing providers, iQ, and the Stems are also in order for the students to The End of contracts, with a deadline of 17:00 on Thursday, 9. April.

Martin Blakey of Unipol, said it was fair for both the landlord and the tenant to reach a compromise and "share The Pain ".

"No One should wear a party [also, the small landlords, as well as the large real estate companies], The Loss ," He Said .

universities in the UK, said emergency laws during the Corona-Virus outbreak meant that all students were protected, "displacement", whether renting privately or from a University.

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Source of news: bbc.com