Peter Detong
February 10, 2023
A housing affordability crisis is looming for international students, according to Peter Detong from Town& Country real estate, who has called on universities to do more to help foreign nationals find accommodation while they study in Australia.
More than 40,000 Chinese students are going to fly back into Australia for the start of first semester after the Chinese Ministry for Education made a “special announcement” on Saturday saying it would no longer recognise of students who studied remotely.
A Chinese student from Wuhan, studies international relations at the University of Sydney and pays $500 a week to rent a studio in Summer Hill. At Sydney University Village there is a waitlist for a one-bedroom apartment that costs $903.50 per week if occupied by two people.
The University of Sydney brought in more than $1.2 billion in international student revenue in 2021, of which 87 per cent was from Chinese students, a NSW Auditor-General’s report found last year. The University of NSW raised more than $700 million in overseas student revenue, followed by the University of Technology with just over $300 million.
The University of Technology sold three of its student accommodation properties to Scape in 2021 but retained a 720-bed complex called Yura Mudang. Current students have priority access to accommodation.
In the CBD of Sydney at the moment there are currently 440 dwellings available for rent and we’re talking about thousands and thousands of new arrivals who want to stay around the city and universities.
国际学生返回时担心租房危机
Peter童
2月 10， 2023
来自Town& Country Real Estate/理为德地产的Peter Detong表示，国际学生的住房负担能力危机迫在眉睫，他呼吁大学采取更多措施帮助外国人在澳大利亚学习期间找到住宿。
超过40000名中国留学生将在第一学期开始时飞回澳大利亚，此前中国教育部周六发布“特别公告”，表示将不再承认远程学习的学生。
一名来自武汉的中国学生在悉尼大学学习国际关系，每周支付500澳元在Surry Hill区租一间工作室。在悉尼大学村，有一个一居室公寓的候补名单，如果由两个人居住，每周收费超过900澳元。
新南威尔士州审计长去年的一份报告发现，悉尼大学在2021年为国际学生带来了超过12亿澳元的收入，其中87%来自中国学生。新南威尔士大学筹集了超过7亿澳元的海外学生收入，其次是科技大学收入3亿澳元。
科技大学于 2021 年将其三处学生宿舍出售给 Scape，但保留了一个名为 Yura Mudon 的 720 个床位的综合大楼。在校学生可优先获得住宿。
在悉尼的中央商务区，目前只有440套住宅可供出租，而我们谈论的是成千上万的新移民，他们想留在城市和大学周围。