Housing
The locks of apartments in Student Village’s building B will be coded – Tenant needs a new key card
Key cards of tenants living in building B of the Student Village expire next week. The lock company will code the locks of the apartments for the new key cards on Monday the 21st of June 2021. Your old key cards won’t work after the lock has been...
Student Village’s Yard Party tomorrow 15th of June – welcome!
Finally we can have some fun together and enjoy the summer. Join us tomorrow for Student Village's Yard Party with live music, creative writing workshop, yard games, urban farming, sauna and a bouncy castle, of course! Program: 15-16 Creative...
June 2021 Tenants’ Info Letter has been mailed
Soihtu Housing tenants receive a newsletter about the current housing topics in Kortepohja Student Village and Soihtu Vehkakuja every month. The newsletter is sent to the e-mail address found in our system and provided by the tenant. Sometimes the...
No changes for service fee
The Board of JYY organized a poll in April about the service fee collected by Soihtu when moving between apartments internally. The Council of Representatives of the Student Union (Council) had already ruled in December 2020 that the tenants whose...
What is it like living in a new house?
A great number of Soihtu’s residential buildings are newly renovated or recently built houses. Living in a new house is often not only a nice but also an exciting experience, especially for the first tenant of the apartment, because there are...
Apply now for building D!
If you would like to live in the renovated building D, fill in an apartment applications online or update your current application. Application time 12.-31.5.2021.
Village key cards expire 20th of May
The village key cards (ie. the contactless key cards used by tenants of the buildings EFHJKLMNOPQ) will expire on Thursday 20th of May. Tenants of the Student Village can pick up new key card from Lillukka (space connected to Rentukka), where a...
Keycards in building A expire in May
The contactless key cards used in building A expire on 24th of May. Tenants of building A can pick up new key cards from Lillukka (a space connected to Rentukka), where a temporary key collection point will be set up for exchanging keys. The new key...
Where lies the village spirit?
Text: Jenna Pigg | Picture in the article: Anssi Kumpula Tenants wish they could influence on their own environment more actively and get their voice heard. Only question how to do it, when students’ life is quite active already and then...
Versatile services get praise, but the opportunities for influencing raise questions
Tenant surveys are one of Soihtu’s ways of mapping the tenants’ wishes and opinions. In the surveys, the tenants give a lot of open feedback every year, which Soihtu staff then carefully reviews. Feasible suggestion will be taken into account either immediately or scheduled for later.
Viewpoint on Housing: Tenant Activity in Transition
In the early days of Kortepohja Student Village it was assumed, as was typical to the 60’s and 70’s, that everyone wanted to participate in developing their living environment.
A friend became a flatmate
Although most students these days want to live in their own studio apartment, after moving to Finland Maria Marouli wanted to live in shared apartments to get to know other students.