{"id":94341,"date":"2021-10-12T08:08:40","date_gmt":"2021-10-12T08:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dispatcheseurope.com\/?p=94341"},"modified":"2021-11-23T07:07:24","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T07:07:24","slug":"desperate-in-the-netherlands-housing-crisis-leaves-expat-students-homeless-hopeless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dispatcheseurope.com\/desperate-in-the-netherlands-housing-crisis-leaves-expat-students-homeless-hopeless\/","title":{"rendered":"Desperate in the Netherlands: Housing crisis leaves expat students homeless, hopeless"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
The Netherlands has a serious student housing crisis, which ultimately has an impact on business, the tech industry in particular. This year, there are more students than ever coming from outside the Netherlands to attend the nation’s advanced technical universities including Technical University of Eindhoven<\/a> and Technical University of Delft<\/a>. But there\u2019s literally no place to put them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We know this intimately as our daughter attends Maastricht University<\/a>, and it\u2019s\u00a0not a new problem.\u00a0<\/a>But what was once a problem is now a housing crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n More and more international students are pouring into the Netherlands. Our daughter’s master’s class is the biggest in the program’s history at 40 students, and she is the only one coming from the university’s bachelor’s program. All the rest are international students.<\/p>\n\n\n\nHighly educated homeless<\/h2>\n\n\n\n