Studentification: Housing Hell In The UK

"'Studentification' brings huge profits to landlords but major problems to locals...all these extra students have to live somewhere, and the cities to which they are flocking must accommodate them...tudents are sheep-like; they want to live where there are other students. So houses in popular zones, no matter how rundown, become gigantic cash cows.Landlords routinely squeeze eight students into a terrace designed as a standard family home, then sit back and watch the money roll in. Meanwhile, neighbouring families, unable to stand the noise, litter and general deterioration of the area, sell up — usually to another landlord. And so the takeover goes on."

Thanks to Bob Karrow