Should student flats be owned by the council?
At Brunswick House in Cambridge students can rent a large en-suite room, sharing a kitchen with five others, for £183 a week.
With more than 200 rooms, and a ready supply of potential tenants, it’s an investor’s dream. But the students who live there don’t pay their rent to a commercial investor.
In fact, it goes to Cambridgeshire County Council, which has just bought the building for £38m …