Toulouse: the tenants of the Chapou university campus still deprived of heating and hot water
Dozens of apartments in the Chapou university campus, in the Amidonniers district in Toulouse, were again deprived of heating and hot water on Tuesday, January 4. One more episode after the October 2021 blackout.
The Chapou university campus, in the Amidonniers district in Toulouse, a new victim of a heating and hot water failure.
Tuesday, January 4, when temperatures did not exceed 4 ° C outside overnight, hundreds of students woke up in the cold. The heating broke down, as well as the hot water.
“The scheduled works took place as planned. There was an outage but the installation is distributed, the network is heating up. There is heating and domestic hot water everywhere. The service provider company monitors the installation, “a spokesperson for Crous Occitanie told” La Dépêche “.
This breakdown is not a first in this residence of nearly 1,200 rooms. In October 2021, residents had been without hot water and heating for several weeks.
Discount of a third on the rental price after the October 2021 blackout
“Yes, it’s a little better than in October, this time the water was warm, and not totally cold, smiles Adrien, a student. But frankly, it’s getting a little boring. Even if the Crous made an effort on the rent in October, with a reduction of a third, that does not mean that nothing should be done. These buildings are clothed, they would require an in-depth renovation “.
The CGT Sela (Union of high school students and apprentices), which regularly tours student residences, as well as the UET, (Union of students of Toulouse), regularly denounce the dilapidated premises, and bedbug problems and cockroaches.