Victoria University defrauded students with accommodation

The University of Victoria in Canada gave up after receiving complaints that it was treating its students "like cattle" by forcing them to share bunk rooms.

The first complaint came from Catherine Hall, who paid for a single room, but instead got a bunk number. According to her, she was in shock for a long time when, just four days before the move, she was told that she would share a room with a bunk bed with complete strangers.

This "housing crisis" at the University of Victoria came because of the 380 rooms, only 32 of them were one-room and at the same time free, while 64 students applied for them at once. The university itself explains this as follows: “historically, usually one third of students refuse to stay in one way or another at the last moment, so it is normal practice to accept a little more applications than the number of rooms available”.

The day after the incident surfaced, Jenny Bentley, campus services director, personally sent letters to the injured students and their parents inviting them to provide free accommodation in shared dormitories at least untilthe single rooms ordered by them will become free.However, this has led to further resentment among families, many of whom have already paid thousands of dollars for a single room contract.

The father of one of the victims stated that “the university is simply abusing its power, knowing that they have a shortage of housing, but at the same time all parents want their children to have a roof over their heads”.

At the moment, most families are planning to take this case to court, but the University of Victoria claims that it will find a solution to this problem before this issue reaches formal proceedings.

Anastasia Gorovaya