7 Apr 2022

Uni students more than twice as likely to live in mouldy homes

From Checkpoint, 5:15 pm on 7 April 2022

Tertiary students are more than twice as likely as the rest of us to be living in damp and mouldy homes.

That's the finding of a survey of 522 students by researchers at the University of Otago.

And as Rosie Gordon and cameraman Samuel Rillstone found out - students' physical and mental health is suffering as a result.

 

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