In these days, housing problems is one of the worst problems, not only for Seattle central students, but also all students who are university or college student in United States. According to homeguides.sfgate.com, students suffer from getting house or apartments in terms of cost and space. Apartments near around our school, especially, are more expensive than other schools. What is a worse, international student face more severe problems that housing cost is getting increased. Of course, housing cost becomes cheaper if apartment is a little further from Seattle central. However, students have to abandon regarding accessibility and convenience which is also important for students. Dormitory could be one of the best alternatives, but it has very limited capacity and it is expensive as apartments near our school.
As I mentioned above, housing problem should be solved as soon as possible. To do that, school has to consider how to solve cost and small dormitory.
To be specific, regarding cost aspect, apartments which are located near Seattle central are so expensive. For example, if we walk 20 minutes via Madison Street, there is an apartment called Summit at Madison Park. For one bedroom, it costs around $1450. However, near our school, apartments for one bedroom cost around $1700. This example shows that there is obviously gap. However whole university or college district in United States have similar troubles with solving this expensive housing cost near each school, school should provide some solution.
To solve this problem, school has to contract with apartments which are near our school so that students can get discount when students contract with that apartments. For instance, as students pay rent for a month; school pays for...
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...mitory due to lots of demand. In reality, even though I wanted to live in dormitory, I abandoned because of sharing a studio with more than 2 students. So I felt many students might have same experience with me so that I interviewed some students. According to several interviews, if the dormitory has bigger room and cheaper price, most of students said that they preferred the dormitory.
In conclusion, school should solve housing problems for students regarding cost, and small dormitory. To do so, school should contract with apartments near Seattle central or extend this small dormitory. Furthermore, school should stand for student’ position. Then school acknowledges necessities of improving these problems and school must prosecute these solutions. If these problems are solved, students can put their all effort into studying and school can retain competent students.
At St. Ambrose University, the housing is mainly two bedrooms sharing one bathroom, instead of a communal bathroom. Private universities are mainly about giving a safe and supportive community that each resident can feel comfortable enough in to thrive. On top of the great housing, there are resident hall activities like volunteering. There are also over fifty clubs and after class activities available at St. Ambrose. There are academic, cultural, recreational and even more types of clubs and class activities available. St. Ambrose does its best to provide a home, away from home.
The Quarters housing project is one of the newest housing options designed and marketed for students to open in the Iowa City/Coralville area. It offers luxury amenities in an apartment style housing complex. In a city plagued by high housing costs, our group wanted to analyse the effects of this new student housing development in terms of sustainability. The Quarters project is also not without a bit of controversy. The development group that owns The Quarters bought out a low income housing complex and replaced it with expensive, luxury style student housing and in the process displaced many low income families. While the actions taken by the previous and current property managers were all completely legal, it is those actions
Housing problems should be solved as soon as possible. To do that, the colleges have to consider how to solve costs and small dormitory problems. There are specific examples regarding cost aspects about apartments being too costly, which are located near Seattle Central. If we walk 20 minutes on Madison Street, there is an apartment called Summit at Madison Park. For a one bedroom apartment it costs around $1450.00 a month. Near our school though, a one bedroom apartment costs around $1700.00 per month. This example shows that there is a significant difference in terms of cost. However most universities and colleges in United States have similar troubles with solving expensive housing cost problems near each school, but schools need to start providing clear solutions.
With the number of homeless students on the rise, schools encounter new educational challenges that include: establishing and maintaining enrollment procedures that would not discourage school attendance; lack of teacher-training/awareness in the special needs of homeless children; the non-existence of a school transfer system for homeless children that would be least destructive to a child's education, while all the time not overlooking the basic needs of food, clothing, shelter, security and medical care that homeless families with children require immediately.
The problem of concern for any student displaced or homeless creates many emotional and social issues. As the tears and look of helplessness slowly made her head fall on my shoulders, I realized that she needed to feel safe and to trust that her needs will get met on a social and
The amount of students who are or are in danger of becoming homeless has increase on our country over the years. Although society structured people to attend post-secondary school in order to receive a sustained career, there are some cases where college is simply too expensive. Many homeless students are not receiving a proper education due to these circumstances, which results of them dropping out. Because of this situation, there are different methods to combat students dropping out of college due to financial issues. However, increasing taxes and/or tuition would not benefit the situation without an increase of society’s knowledge and awareness in the topic.
One of the prevalent problems that distract the student’s ability to learn and develop skills that are required to graduate high school is family homelessness. According to the state center for homeless families, 1 out of 45 children in the US are homeless that averagely 1.6 children are homeless every year. There are a variety of factors that cause family homelessness they include domestic violence, lack of affordable housing, decreasing government supports, lack of social support, or the challenges of raising children alone (Stetser, & Stillwell, 2014).
Students affected by homelessness are rising at an epidemic rate. There is an upward trend of students who are classified by their school district and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development between 2004-05 and 2013-14 school year, “In school year 2013-14 there were 1.4 million students who were homeless at the beginning of the year...this is more than twice as many as in school year 2004-05 (590,000)” (Child Trends, 2015, p.3). This trend directly increases the number of students impacted with the homeless experience. As of the 2014-15 school year, state educational agencies (SEAs) reported 1,263,323 children experiencing homelessness, compared to 1,219,818 during the 2012-13 school year (National Center for Homeless Education,
My name is Jeffrey Magloire and I am a current matriculating student at Sullivan County Community College I have a couple of issues that I wanted to bring forward to your attention. As you may or may not know Sullivan County Community College has just constructed a new dormitory for incoming students. This Dormitory has opened up doors to many students that could not handle the commute to and from school. Although the dormitory has been an advantage to students traveling; the students have been living in poor condition for the last five weeks. The first problem occurred the day we walked in. The students were put into rooms where the paint smell was still resident and was the cause of two asthma attacks. We still have not received camera’s which would have been no problem if they had more than two security guards for each shift in our 350 capacity student dorm. I have read the contract that was handed to me and the dormitory has violated many promises made on that contract. The first violation has made many students drop out of school and go home and miss one semester of school. The Dormitory Corporation promised us daily maintenance on all of our bathrooms but the maintenance workers come only three times a week which has raised hazardous fumes coming from the bathroom and also the bathroom utensils are not available to students frequently which has deferred the students from having proper hygiene. The roof fire alarm has not been turned off due to the shortness of security officers and the alarm goes off every night due to loitering. They also promised that we will have telephone service which has not been honored and most of students have no way of contacting their friends and family. The School has one phone line and that one phone line is occupied by resident assistant, resident managers, security and is also the phone that security uses to contact the fire department in case of emergency.
In addition to spending more on the actual education and university fees, the international students also have to spend on boarding and food. Finding a place to stay that is conveniently near to the university and other places of interaction, is affordable, accepts immigrants, and suits the basic requirements - is hard, sometimes impossible. A compromise on at least one criterion of the above is required to sustain in the new country.
Tuition over the years have made it the struggle for students and their parent to make ends meet. The dorms cost a lot that make it payment really high. Living off campus would make life so much easier for parents and myself because the cost of the school would not cost as much as it does living in the dorms. The school should let students live off campus if they have 2 or more people living with them. If the school did let students live off campus I feel like they should be able to have room checks just like they do in the dorms. If the parents of the students let them live off campus the school should be able to let them do it too. Because really the parents of the students have more authority over the school. I feel that now that a lot of the dorms are getting broken into that it would be way safer to live off campus. That way I know that it is my responsibility if someone was to break into my house. If anything is broking into in our room even if it is locked I don’t think the school pays to get any of the stuff replaced. So living off campus can help students to have responsibility and become a real adult in the college
Cash flow is very important when choosing a living environment. Living in the city can easily be more expensive, if you do not know where to look. But it can also be very competitive with that of your spending in the country. Apartments can be very affordable in a rent-controlled neighborhood, and are much more feasible for families, or students just starting out on their own; whereas, in the country, you may have to buy a home or hard to find cheap rentals. Transportation costs, groceries, taxes, and utilities are common expenditures for any adult. But, many may find that a large amount of money can be saved on these living expenses in a city.
All students in the campus who has different kind of habits which mean some of the students willing to pay more money to have their lunch or dinner at café. Of course as we know that café have a better environment for the customer so the price of the foods also higher compare to normal restaurant. And some of the students which willing to eat at some restaurant or mamak so the price of the restaurant is cheaper compare to café etc. Furthermore are student’s education fees. Some of the students in the campus are spending to buying new textbooks. Oftentimes, students feel they need to buy their textbook quickly and will go to book store to buy all textbooks for their classes, many of them new. Besides, additional professional papers also taking by students apart from his or her current papers. Other expenses students spend more money in transportation. Some of the college students going classes by own car. Students are feeling convenient by travel own transport. It is an extra expense because need for petrol fee, service fee, repair fees etc. Other than that, some of students might choose other options which are travel school bus, walk, and railway
Students living on campus don’t have to worry about time because they live in the college. On the other hand, students who commute to school, have to worry about getting to class on time. Students living on campus don’t have to waste money on transportation or food since it is all covered under a plan. Unlike commuters, who aren’t covered under a plan, they have to pay more money to get to school as well as for food. Students who live on campus tend to know more people and they know more about what’s going on around campus. However, students, who commute, don’t have that advantage because they are home most of the time. Living on campus can be more beneficial than living at home in many ways.
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