Students Left Without Homes After Housing Company Fails in Dundee
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A company that gives homes to students has closed in Dundee, Scotland. The company could not pay its bills. Now, many students do not have a place to live.
Students are trying to find new homes very fast. This is hard because many places are already full. Some students feel worried and stressed.
This is not the only problem like this in the UK. Other student housing companies have also closed this year. Experts say the student housing sector has money problems across the whole country.
The Guardian newspaper is asking students to share their stories. They want to know if other students have problems with their housing companies too.
People are worried that more housing companies could close soon. This could leave even more students without homes in the future.
Vocabulary15 words
- sector
- a part of business or the economy, like housing or health
- Guardian
- a well-known newspaper in the UK
- provider
- a company that gives a service, like housing
- accommodation
- a place to live, like a room or house
- scramble
- to move fast because you must do something quickly
- bust
- when a company has no money and must close
- collapse
- to fail suddenly and stop working
- strain
- stress or pressure on something
- financial
- about money
- case
- one example of something that happened
- highlight
- to show something clearly
- scheme
- a plan or system, like a housing plan
- string
- a series of similar things happening one after another
- fail
- to not succeed; to stop working
- severe
- very bad or serious
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1. It closed because it had no money 2. Worried and stressed 3. False
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A company that gives homes to students has closed in _____, Scotland. The company could not pay its _____.
Now, many students do not have a place to _____.
Students are trying to find new homes very _____. This is hard because many places are already _____.
This is not the only _____ like this in the UK. Other student housing companies have also closed this _____.
Experts say the student housing sector has _____ problems across the whole country.
The Guardian newspaper is asking students to share their _____.
People are worried that more housing companies could _____ soon.
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