NUS Vice President Higher Education, Chloe Field, said:
“In the early hours of this morning we saw bailiffs violently evict students from an occupation at the University of Manchester.
"We are disgusted but sadly not surprised that instead of meeting the occupiers and addressing their entirely reasonable concerns for affordable rent, the University decided to move straight to taking their own students to court and then engaged and wasted students’ money on private bailiffs to brutally evict them.
"We send our full solidarity to all those students who have stood up for what’s right and taken action on sky high rents as the cost of living crisis continues.”
