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SYRIZA MPs are asking for a ceiling on the rent increase in student accommodation

42 SYRIZA MPs request the establishment of a ceiling on the increase of the rent in residential – student rentals and the taking of measures to protect student living, with their question to the competent ministers of Finance, Christos Staikouras and Development, Adonis Georgiadis.

In the question submitted led by Vassilis Kokkalis, the MPs point out that this year, students and their parents are facing multiple issues in renting a residence, due to the particularly high rents, especially in the big cities of Athens and Thessaloniki. of Larissa, Patras and in addition due to the reduced supply of available properties.

“The rapid increase in rents in student housing, combined with the incalculable increase in electricity bills due to the increase in the price of the kilowatt hour, the increase in the price of natural gas, which is expected to develop at hand, as well as fuel , which lead to revaluations of basic consumer goods, necessary for basic living, make for the next period, the dignified living of students and the “daily student life”, unbearable, for the students themselves and their parents”, state the MPs and emphasize that these conditions make the students’ living costs almost prohibitive, and the parents are called upon to cover their own basic living needs and the maintenance of their family home, at the same time as the maintenance of a second residence and the students’ living. As they also note, the problem is to such an extent that many parents are even considering the possibility of postponing the time of studies and suspending attendance.

Because, as they emphasize, the increase in electricity and natural gas bills, and the prices of consumer goods, combined with the increase in rents, make the survival of students and the maintenance of student housing unaffordable to the point of prohibitive” and because it must be put in the residential leases, where students live for the needs of their studies, a ceiling – limit in terms of the percentage of the increase, call on the government to intervene in order to keep the increases in student housing rents at tolerable levels, compared to the previous year, in order to to protect families and to avoid unpleasant situations of dropping out of studies due to financial weakness. The two ministers are asked to inform the Parliament if they will establish a ceiling – a ceiling on the increase in the rents of the leases, concerning student housing and if they will proceed to receive other necessary and absolutely justified measures, so that there is an additional and special one social protection of the students’ parents and the students themselves, to enable the maintenance of the student residence and the living of the students.

Source: AMPE

Source: Capital

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