Iris Duane: “Housing is meant to be for people, not absurd profits whilst regular families are struggling to get a good home.”

International student numbers are continuing to fall. It is hard to see the justification for continuing to build more and more PBSAs when existing ones are not at capacity.

I would push to ensure that we are looking at the bigger picture and support residents to live in good, collegiate communities together.

It is vital that these students are given the support and safe passage that they need to come and study here in Scotland now, not next year or in the future.

Too often transnational corporations, who have never walked our streets, are plonking down PBSAs with little regard for those who already live there.