Students stood ready when the University made 40 flats available on Tuesday last week. But there is still a large surplus of student’s lodgings.
At 1 p.m. sharp LU Accommodation released the student’s lodgings that have become available since the turn of the month. Ten students were waiting at LU Accommodation, a part of the student service at the University, just as it opened. Their housing department is aimed principally towards international students. However, as long as there is a surplus of housing, Swedish students are also able to look for housing there.
The general idea of there being a shortage of student housing does not answer to the actual situation in Lund during this spring, according to Linda Petersson, service administrator at LU Accommodation.
“During some critical weeks in August, we usually have a shortage of flats, but during the spring there is as good as always a surplus”, she says.
According to Linda Petersson, it is often the bigger flats, the one-room and two-rooms flats, that are available. Corridor rooms are more coveted. Today, housing is rented to people who have been without a place to live since the beginning of the term, as well as students who already have contracts, but are looking for cheaper accommodation.
In the queue stands Daniele Perrotti, who studies mechanical engineering at LTH. He lives in Malmö but would like to have a flat in Lund.
“I find it hard finding somewhere to live in Lund, but it is probably even more difficult during the autumn term”, he says.
At 13.35 on Tuesday there were 30 flats left. First come, first served.
Translation: Anna Bergvall
Reporter: Lovisa Waldeck
