I studied in the UK When was this? The accommodation in The Young Ones [1] isn't too far a cry from the sorts of student accommodation you'd find in the 80s an

I studied in the UK When was this? The accommodation in The Young Ones [1] isn't too far a cry from the sorts of student accommodation you'd find in the 80s and 90s, and a disused brothel would fit right into that picture. It seems to me (anecdata), that shortly after tuition fees were introduced (1998/1999), the trend for better (and correspondingly more expensive) student accommodation began, kicking off development of purpose-build accommodation. There's some interesting numbers in a real-estate report from GVA [2], which shows a reduction in university-owned student halls, and an increase in privately-owned purpose-built student halls. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Young_Ones_(TV_series) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Young_Ones_(TV_series) [2] http://www.gva.co.uk/research/student-housing-market-overview-autumn-2012/ http://www.gva.co.uk/research/student-housing-market-overvie... [PDF]