The New University of Lisbon (Nova) launches this Thursday a platform to facilitate the meeting between students looking for home and people with vacant rooms, as part of a project that has helped more than 40 displaced students.
Students looking for home and people to rent rooms for students can now give “Match” thanks to the “1/4 network”.
This platform is a kind of Tinder of Student Accommodation and was developed by the new.
The purpose of the “1/4 network” is to gather students looking for affordable price and people living alone and, having rooms available, are willing to share the house with college students.
The initiative has been on the ground since November, but will have a new tool to facilitate the registration of students and hosts: one platform onlinewhich will be managed by the university itself.
The platform, available in, will allow “Students and hosts can be found and make agreements between them.
But, as the Dean to Lusa explained to Lusa for Socio-Territorial Innovation, the Platform will have rules. First of all, the income valuewhose maximum is fixed based on the regulation of the affordable lease program, ie 20% below the lease reference value.
In the municipalities of Lisbon, Oeiras and Cascais, for example, the maximum value of lace will be around 370 euros and in Almada, where the new one has another pole, will be slightly lower, refers João Seixas.
There are already 40 active matchings
Even without digital platform, the “1/4 network” has already allowed to help some of the thousands of displaced students from Nova, representing about half of the student universe.
Since November, About 200 hosts expressed availability To lease rooms, representing more than 250 beds, according to the balance made by the Dean. On the students’ side, there are more than 200 enrolled and the records will now migrate to the new platform.
“We already have about 40 matchings active ”that is, students who are already living in the host house, said the official.
Less than four months from the beginning of a new school year, João Seixas believes that in the near future demand will increase significantly, justifying the need to launch this revolutionary platform “as soon as possible”, where It will be possible to schedule visits and formalize the lease agreements.
In addition to the “1/4 network”, the new one maintains the goal of tripling the number of beds in university homes until the end of 2027, from the current 460 to close to 1,600.
According to the Student Accommodation Observatory, the lace of a fourth in Lisbon rounds, on average, the 500 euros monthly, the highest value in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area.
With less supply, in Cascais the average income is 475 per month and 450 euros in the municipality of Oeiras. In the municipality of Almada, there are about 400 euros a month.
