[HDNG]IN COLLEGE:[EHDNG][PARA][GRPH]A1[EGRPH][STAT][BULL] Catered: 11% [BULL] Cost: ú48-64 (30wks) [BULL] Self-catering: 41%[PARA][BULL] Cost: ú27-ú37 (39wks)[ESTAT][PARA][BOLD]Availability:[EBOLD] 87% of 1st years can live in a variety of [ITAL]highly [PARA]satisfactory[EITAL] halls. The older halls, such as Bodington and [PARA]Devonshire (both catered), require about 20% of their students to [PARA]share (for whom rents are lower), but the newer accommodation[PARA](Charles Morris and Henry Price) provides single bedsits [PARA]arranged along mixed corridors with [ITAL]minimal[EITAL] facilities shared by [PARA]between 4 and 8 students. 1 women-only hall. Apart from 1st [PARA]years, the only other students who stand a realistic chance of [PARA]living in are postgrads (about 20% are accommodated). Many [PARA]opt for the University-owned terraced housing in the surrounding [PARA]student ghettoes. Few live beyond walking distance of campus [ITAL][PARA](though students are advised to avoid short cuts across the [PARA]Woodhouse Moor).[EITAL] The exception is Bodington about 4 miles [PARA]away (an easy bus ride).[PARA][BOLD]Car parking:[EBOLD][ITAL] Expensive, unnecessary and in short supply.[EITAL][PARA][PARA][ITAL][HDNG]EXTERNALLY:[EHDNG][EITAL][PARA]Most students are condemned to the large quantities of late 19th [PARA]century back-to-back terraced housing generally in poor condition[PARA]with damp and landlords who don't care. Students who want to [PARA]stay in one piece are advised to try Headingley, Hyde Park and [PARA]Woodhouse and avoid Chapeltown, although many may find [PARA]themselves settling for something further from the University [PARA]than they'd ideally like.[PARA][BOLD]Housing help:[EBOLD] UniPol (which should change its name to UniUni) - [PARA]the joint University and Leeds Metropolitan University SUs' [PARA]housing service - provides some help and advice by keeping tabs [PARA]on the worst landlords and even managing some 116 properties [PARA]itself as part of a head tenancy scheme. With 8 full time and 3 [PARA]part time staff, it's a dream scheme.[PARA][PARA]
