{"id":32805,"date":"2019-11-14T12:34:29","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T12:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/?p=32805"},"modified":"2019-11-14T12:34:29","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T12:34:29","slug":"which-is-better-student-housing-or-private-accommodation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/which-is-better-student-housing-or-private-accommodation\/","title":{"rendered":"Which is better: student housing or private accommodation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In our first episode of Surviving London, our host Abigail Obina talked to young Londoners about their housing experiences. We heard stories about them living at privately rented accommodations and flat sharing with friends and strangers.<\/p>\n<p>But what about living in student halls? Is student accommodation better than private accommodation? Abigail speaks to Karolina Ivanovska, a residential officer of the University of Westminster Harrow halls to find out.<\/p>\n<p>Fancy a listen to Abigail&#8217;s short conversation with a student housing expert, click below:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Which is better: student housing or private accommodation? by AbigailObina\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F712661131&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=750&#038;maxwidth=500\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t listened to Surviving London yet, check it out!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/surviving-london-episode-1-welcome-to-the-city-jungle\/\">Surviving London Episode 1: Welcome to the city jungle<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you\u2019re interested in more student-related podcasts have a listen to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/top-secret-the-new-hot-spot-for-students\/\">Top secret: the new hot spot for students<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/whats-happening-with-the-hong-kong-protests\/\">What\u2019s happening with the Hong Kong protests?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Fancy a read on student-related news this week?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/smoke-radio-won-gold-for-best-student-radio-station\/\">Smoke Radio wins Gold for Best Student Radio Station<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Words: Abigail Obina | Illustration:\u00a0@<a class=\"g-link-user\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/tanviriillustration\">tanviriillustration<\/a>\u00a0| Music credit:\u00a0https:\/\/www.bensound.com\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In our first episode of Surviving London, our host Abigail Obina talked to young Londoners about their housing experiences. We heard stories about them living at privately rented accommodations and flat sharing with friends and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":476,"featured_media":32806,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[3037,5943,5950],"class_list":["post-32805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcasts","tag-housing","tag-student","tag-student-housing-vs-private-accommodation"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}