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King’s Affordable Accommodation Scheme

Rent setting at King's Residences

King’s Residences and KCLSU work together in an unique setting to discuss how rents will be set for the following academic year, taking into account utility costs (heating, water, electricity, WI-FI), the service costs (24/7 reception, security and pastoral care staff), the features of the property, the location of each site and transport costs to campus, where applicable.

King's Affordable Accommodation Scheme

KAAS is a rent model discussed with student representatives to ensure we maximise the number of rooms that are priced at the lowest possible rates, so that students from more challenging financial backgrounds can still access accommodation.
For the 20/21 academic year, the university has once again agreed to support the scheme by allowing King’s Residences to:
  • Increase the number of beds capped below £169 from 934 in 2017/18 to 1,345 in 2018/19
  • Pilot extending KAAS to returning and international undergraduate students
The 1,345 KAAS rooms available for 2020/21 are split into quotas for the following groups:
  • Returning undergraduate students: 75 for home and EU and 45 for international students
  • First year undergraduate students: 940 for home and EU and 285 for international students.

KAAS Eligibility Criteria

  • You must be a full-time undergraduate student, first-year or returning in the 20/21 academic year
  • Confirmation that your family income is below £42,875 per annum
  •  A statement explaining the reasons you feel you should be allocated a KAAS room
  • Applications submitted without this information will not be considered.

The KAAS application form is contained at the end of the accommodation registration.

KAAS Rooms Application Process

In the event of us receiving more applications than our current availability for KAAS, we will:
1. Disconsider all incomplete applications (i.e. missing the personal statement or household income information). 
2. Put on hold all applications that are eligible to or currently in receipt of bursaries available at King’s, and those declaring household income over the set threshold. These applications may be considered once all other applications have been processed and if there are KAAS rooms still available at that stage.

The remaining applications will be allocated in the following order of priority:

  1. 1

    Priority 1: applicants with evidence of being estranged from family and/or with a declared disability.

  2. 2

    Priority 2: applicants below the household income threshold, not in receipt of King’s bursary and based outside London

  3. 3

    Priority 3: applicants below the household income threshold, not in receipt of King’s bursary and based in London

  4. 4

    Priority 4: applicants below the household income threshold, in receipt of King’s bursary and based outside London

  5. 5

    Priority 5: applicants below the household income threshold, in receipt of King’s bursary and based in London

 

No Deposits

Since 2015 King’s College London has scrapped the requirement for deposits to be paid to secure accommodation. This initiative aims to reduce the costs at the start of the term for all students joining King’s Residences.
This does not apply to Intercollegiate Halls however, as those residences are not managed by King’s directly.

Additional Support

If you are unsure of what other financial assistance is available to you, King’s Student Funding can help you access a wider range of initiatives, including the King’s Living Bursary.

Contact Us

If you have any questions or queries about this, please get in touch with the Bookings Team.

0207 848 5959

 

It is important to note:

You may not be allocated to a KAAS room if these have been allocated in their entirety to applicants in a higher priority group, even if you are eligible to KAAS rooms. These is because we must work within the quotas set each year. If these rooms become available, we may contact applicants that had not been allocated to a KAAS room to inform them of changed availability. If you are allocated to a KAAS room, your offer of accommodation will reflect the discounted room rate.

 

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