To address prohibitive costs of attendance,the Manhattan university is piloting a scheme helping students save money by lodging in elderly people’s homesStudying at recent York University has become so prohibitively expensive that the historic Manhattan school is introducing a scheme to help students save money by lodging in elderly people’s spare bedrooms.
Andrew Hamilton, NYU’s recent president, and has approved a pilot scheme to pair up students with low-income older people struggling to make ends meet. The scheme – dubbed “Grandma’s spare room” – may sound like the premise of an intergenerational sitcom but it will begin in plunge 2017,and university officials said initial demand had been so strong that it could be extended to hundreds of students and perhaps other schools in recent York and other expensive cities across the country. Related: The students blissful to pay £1000 a week to rent a flat in central London Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com