International Housing Offenders

I was reading an article in one of the local Lund newspapers and came across an article that noted that of the 2000 exchange students for this semester, only about half of them were able to get university accomodation. The others apparently had to go look for private rooms. The article also noted that they had talked to the people at the IHO and they had said that they couldn't put students in the St. Lars buildings which were used last year because of a lack of quality. The IHO people seemed almost sad about this.

Let me say something. I visited the St. Lars dormitory only once and that was around this time last year. I have to honestly say that I did not know that it was possible for a Swedish housing office to rent rooms in a building like that. The buildings were used for some sort of hospital care, but that doesn't go half the way in describing what it felt like to be in those rooms. It felt like you were living in a mental institution. To my knowledge there were no Swede's that were forced to live there only international students. The Lund IHO is one of the most foul things I have come across in my travels.