Apart from the greed of the Landlords and house agents. Most student are willing to pay whatever amount they are being told to pay. These people see students are the richest and are the people they can easily extort money from. This is because of the percentage of student that are involve in scams are much greater. Students leave more lavish than family or non-student. I will not blame the landlord I blame the government because there is no regulation of government that are in charge of these kind of things. Also, I blame other person s who have the money to pay whatever the cost. Because their lavish attitude has affected other student that do not have enough. I could remember when I was in search of an apartment last year, the house agents said if I don't have that amount to pay that there are lot persons who will pay for it.
Honest truth the government has refused to do something about this woefully fails to Considering students by the level of national economy.
The government is embezzling at the governance sectors while individual such as the real estate management investors are at the privates sectors with no remorses or sympathy
Who is richer is growing richer and who is poor do going poorer.
I think this is where the necessity of this threads title is more valid
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5471026.msg63266762#msg63266762 which says "Why do people think it is a mistake or being a Nigeria".
I know about a landlord in my neighborhood who doesn't let his tenants exceed two years of residence simply because he feels that he needed that extra payment of tenants agreements fee, drinking money and all that from the new tenants without considering they are students.
Yet the house agents at the other hands has been so selfish that even when known that some houses is not worth living yet they streams, hypes the house on disguise and bringing more of residential in needs person's in there.
Government can put this high voltage of house rents increments to a limited rate simply but that is not one of their problems because they believes such interventions would not offer them any form of revenues to generating of funds.