Ireland promises 21,000 more student beds by 2024
Ireland’s Ministers for Education and Skills, Higher Education and Housing and Urban Renewal have launched a National Student Accommodation Strategy in a bid to curtail the country’s massive shortfalls in the supply of available bed spaces for university students.
The strategy lays out plans to increase the number of purpose built student accommodation beds in Ireland by 63%, equating to 21,000 beds, in seven years.
In addition to action plans to grow PBSA, the strategy also hopes to increase the number of available digs – rooms leased in private family homes – by 4,000 beds per annum by 2019 …