\u201cI have to reckon that I\u2019ll be paying an extra 5,000 euros per year in rent\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNew studios available\u201d
UvA student Tvarita Khandelwal is one of the students who must leave their home this coming August. To his great disappointment: \u201cMy rent is currently around 880 euros. Realistically, it will be very difficult to find something at a similar price. I have to reckon that I\u2019ll be paying an extra 5,000 euros per year in rent. On top of that, given the current housing market, I will probably need a rental agent. And all the while, I keep getting automated emails saying that new studios are available in my building. That\u2019s obviously very strange.\u201d<\/p>\n
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According to Khandelwal, a WhatsApp group has been created for students who must leave the Student Experience location at Antonio Vivaldistraat. The group now has 191 students.<\/p>\n
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Unfair
Another student, who prefers to remain anonymous, says the main issue is the communication and the unexpected situation. \u201cIn theory, nothing changes for me: I knew I had to leave in August, and that is still the case. But now that the building is staying open and new tenants will be moving into my room, it just feels unfair. They\u2019re basically kicking us out.\u201d<\/p>\n
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She explains that she understands the legal difficulties but says they are open to many solutions: \u201cWe could, for example, move to another studio in the same complex. We would still be considered new tenants. Or we could get priority in the allocation for the available rooms. But there doesn\u2019t seem to be room for that.\u201d<\/p>\n
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In the letter students received from Student Experience, the landlord stated that it had \u201cin consultation with a lawyer\u201d looked for alternative ways to allow students to stay longer, for example by offering another residence. The company says, however, that it runs into legal limitations.<\/p>\n
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\u201cExtremely unfortunate\u201d
The municipality stated that it is \u201cextremely unfortunate\u201d that \u201csome students have been told that they cannot remain in their current residence.\u201d At the same time, it emphasizes that by extending the lease, 800 student rooms remain available for an additional year: \u201cAnd we therefore call on the landlord to allow as many current students as possible to stay.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Student Experience replies:\u00a0\u201cWe recently received the positive news from the municipality confirming that we can stay on the location a bit longer then initially agreed. While this is a great news for students, unfortunate it can not apply to everyone due to the legal restriction related to short term contracts. In fact, we can not offer the students with a temporary contract a second temporary contract. Doing so would mean creating automatically an indefinite contract under the Dutch law. Which is not feasible for our situation due to the fact that Zuidas is going to be dismissed eventually. After thoroughly investigating with our lawyers, we had to come to the conclusion that this legal restriction limits us and therefore we can not provide this specific group of students any other solution.\u201d<\/p>\n
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The name of the anonymous student is known to the editorial team.<\/p>\n
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Update February 24th, 15.00:\u00a0Student Experience’s response has been added to this article.<\/p>\n
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