China News Service, September 24. According to the US "World Journal" report, in the United States, last year students from various universities took online classes at home, and the landlords around the school were miserable.

With the students returning to school in September this year, the landlord ushered in the peak season, and the worries were replaced by students.

Due to various reasons, there is a shortage of off-campus housing. Some students paid three months in advance to rent a room. The slow-moving students still live in hotels and can’t get a room.

　　Santiago University International Student Wen students still live in the hotel on the 22nd, and during the day they are looking for a room around the school.

"I can't find a house at all. Don't even think about it around the school." He was looking at a house 30 minutes away from the school that day and found a rented house that was a bit dilapidated but the asking price was still US$2,700, which made him hesitant.

He even considered renting an apartment to live near Irvine, because only two courses are taught face-to-face, and the others are online courses. You can choose both offline and offline courses on the same day, and you only need to drive to the school once a week.

　　The head of the Los Angeles team of Taosha looking for a house has observed that the student population is experiencing a housing crisis, and the real estate next to the university is very hot.

She learned that some students wanted to rent a house, and their parents paid for the rent in June. The rent has been paid for three months and it is empty, just to grab the rented house in advance.

　　She said that the phenomenon is widespread in universities in Southern California, including the University of Riverside (UCR), University of Irvine (UCI), University of San Diego (UCSD), and University of Santa Barbara (UCSB). One spared.

She gave an example of a three-bedroom house near Santa Barbara. As soon as the monthly rent was listed for $4,500, it received 30 tenant applications, and some students did not bid $4,800.

The price of another four-bedroom townhouse near Irvine University was as high as $6,000 a month.

　　She helped guests buy a house in Riverside University. A house sold in June was renting as high as US$4,000. It is said that some people rented a house in the vicinity for US$7,000.

There was an investment house near the school. On the day the transaction was closed, someone immediately signed a lease.

She lamented that the worst market last year was the student apartment, but it is very popular now.

She analyzed that after the students returned to school this year, most of the schools introduced new policies. In the past, two people could live in one dormitory before the epidemic. Now because of the epidemic prevention, there is only one room for one person, so many students need to find a room.

In addition, schools have expanded their enrollment year by year in recent years, and the number of students has increased.

　　"A lot of my students are still living in hotels." The regional representative of the International Education Project of Hebin University said that renting houses around the school this year is "outrageously expensive and unbelievable."

She randomly showed several rental apartments listed on the Internet, and many one-bedroom apartments in Riverside City were also priced at more than US$2,400 to more than US$2,700.

She said that the previous one-bedroom, one-bath house can be rented very well for US$1,700 and US$1,800.

She said, "I am worried about the children."

　　She said that indeed the school no longer provides dormitories with bunk beds, they are all single rooms.

But she doesn't think it will cause such a big price difference. After all, the school has a lot of new dormitories this year, and there are not as many returning students as before. Especially for her project, many students still choose to take online classes in China.

However, the high housing prices and the tight availability of housing are too unusual for her to understand.

　　The student housing crisis after the epidemic seems to have occurred in many parts of the United States, and some local media in Boston, Nevada, New York City and other places have also noticed this phenomenon.

　　A report in the Nevada Independent newspaper this month pointed out that the problem that caused the crisis was that the school limited the number of students living on campus, the expansion of undergraduate enrollment was too rapid, and some students even had to sleep in the car before finding a rental house.

The New York Post reported this month that more and more students are looking for off-campus accommodation because the on-campus dormitory's epidemic prevention policies are too strict, such as wearing masks in shared dormitory areas and prohibiting visitors.

In addition, some landlords are not ready to convert their houses into rental housing.

(Li Xue)