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Angry students living in the Victoria University of Wellington’s on-campus housing are planning a rent strike after the school refused to waive fees during the COVID-19 lockdown.
The students have created a Facebook group calling for university housing residents to “advocate for a rent strike of the $150 per week fee in place for unoccupied rooms during alert level 3.”
Before New Zealand went into the COVID-19 alert level 4 lockdown on March 25, students living in the Halls of Residence were told they didn’t need to pay for their accommodation if they weren’t living there during the lockdown.
However on Friday an email was sent to students informing them they would need to pay a “holding fee” for unoccupied rooms from April 29.
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