New student accommodation may ease housing shortage – York
A multi-million pound development to build hundreds of student rooms to help to free up larger houses amid a critical shortage of family homes in one of Yorkshire’s property hotspots is due to be completed this summer.
The seven-storey Gray’s Wharf halls of residence in York, a £12m scheme which will provide 232 rooms, are on schedule to be finished for the intake of new students at the start of the academic year in September.
A lack of larger properties across the city has become an increasing problem in recent years after private landlords bought up scores of three and four-bedroom houses to rent out to students …