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21st August 2017
02:22pm BST

UCD SU president Katie Ascough went undercover on the popular social media app to shed some light on the kind of accommodation being offered to students.
The first place she viewed was a house in Crumlin. A room there cost €250 a month to rent which, as Katie said herself, is "dirt cheap."
The room in question was actually a sitting room with a bunk bed in the corner above the sitting room couch.
Katie said that the bed was "basically, a grill of metal bars propped up by a cheap, DIY timber frame.”
The other three bedrooms in the house were being shared by six people.
Katie finished that snap by urging students to "be careful" when looking for a spot to live.
She also commented that the smell of the house was "like old granny feet mixed with mould."
The second student accommodation that Katie viewed was a room in a house in Kilmainham.
This room was going for €300 a month, and offered a single bed in a bedroom with two other single beds right next to it.
There was also a lot of mould.
Afterwards, Katie commented on the "crampedness" of the house, saying that the three beds side-by-side were "shocking."
She then encouraged people to contact UCD's accommodation officer if they were struggling to find a place to stay.
With CAO offers having just been released this morning, hundreds of students are probably desperately seeking somewhere to live right now.
And even though student housing developments are on the rise, many people are still having to resort to mouldy rooms and incredibly cramped living conditions.
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