Rent Reduction For Swansea Students

Giving this unprecedented time, we as students have not been giving much support with regards to our housing as many other types of tenants have been. The only advice we have been given is that despite the majority of us not returning to Swansea for the foreseeable future but only to pick up the small remainder of stuff, we are still expected to pay full rent. Whilst we can accept that we are in a legally binding contract, this Covid-19 pandemic is unusual and unprecedented. And we feel we should be given some leniency towards rent, whilst letting agencies and landlords believe that we get a student loan that covers our rent, for the majority of students that student loan has to be supplemented by other income in order to pay for rent, which in normal circumstances would be totally fair and understandable, but these are not normal times.
We as students, have seen across the country landlords and letting agencies offer students who do not move back to their houses, the chance to pay half rent, which we believe is fair. We understand that the landlord’s may have a mortgage to pay and as a result are not expecting for a ‘get out of jail’ card to not pay rent as a whole, but instead we are asking for those who do not intend to return to Swansea given the current global pandemic that affects all of us the ability to pay half rent.