AYY has received an unusually large number of applications for apartments in April and May. This means that at the moment (4.5.2017) there are over 300 applications that are waiting to be checked and approved. It will take approximately two weeks for your application to be processed.

Your application on Domo says ‘needs approval’ until it has been processed and Domo changes the status into saying ‘queued’. Every application is processed at the housing office and scored in accordance with AYY’s housing scoring regulations. The application is placed in the housing queue based on the application date and the scores. When the application is processed at the housing office, the applicant can follow the progress of the queue in the Domo system and make possible changes to the application.

Useful links

• How to apply for AYY housing
• Domo
• Scoring of applications

11.8.2017

At the moment there are no available apartments open to all students.

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Since the teaching at Aalto University is focusing more and more on the Otaniemi campus, there are not enough AYY members with a right of residence applying for our apartments in East Helsinki. Because of this, some of AYY’s student apartments in East Helsinki can be offered more frequently to students outside the Aalto University. If there are not enough AYY members with a right of residence applying for a particular AYY apartment, the housing office can rent the apartment to any postgraduate student or degree student, with priority given to AYY members.

Now, AYY is making some of its apartment groups in East Helsinki open to all students. The apartment groups in question are listed here. There are a limited number of apartments, and not all apartment types are always available.

At the moment, we are looking for applications especially for the apartment groups listed below. More information on the apartments can be found in Domo. Instructions on how to make an application can be found here: /en/housing/apartment-seekers/how-to-apply-for-housing/apartments-open-to-all-students/

Roihuvuori, two-room apartment (2 x bedrooms)

• 51 m2, 683.40 €, Kääpiöidenpolku 4
• Kitchen + balcony
• Floor plan

Roihuvuori, two-room apartment (living room + bedroom)

• 41 m2, 549.40 €, Kääpiöidenpolku 4
• Kitchenette + balcony
• Floor plan

Vuosaari, two-room apartment (living room + bedroom + sauna)

• Pohjavedenkatu 4
• All apartments have balcony or terrace and kitchen or kitchenette
• 39.5 m2, walk-in closet in the apartment, 477.95 €, floor plan
• 49.5 m2, 598.95–605.00 €, approximate floor plan
• 53 m2, 641.30–695.70 €, approximate floor plan

Vuosaari, three-room apartment (2 x bedrooms + living room + sauna)

• 74.5 m2, 901.45 €, Pohjavedenkatu 4
• Kitchen + balcony
• Floor plan

If you are a new exchange student, you can apply for AYY housing by making an application through the Domo system.

When creating your account, please choose EXCHANGE STUDENT as your student type. Otherwise your application can’t be processed and your chance of getting an apartment in time will be worse!

When creating your account, please add in some attachment about applying or being accepted into the Aalto University as exchange student. AYY will receive a list of all exchange students who have been accepted by Aalto and we’ll actually use that list to determine who has final right to apply for AYY apartments. The attachment is basically to just let you finish your registration to Domo, so the contents of the attachment are not that important.

Please include as many apartments in your application as possible! This will GREATLY increase your chances of receiving an apartment from AYY in time for your studies. Exchange students have priority for furnished single room apartments, so please at least include those in your application. Please note that most AYY studio apartments have a queue of nearly 1-2 years, so if you only apply to studio apartments, we can unfortunately practically guarantee you won’t be receiving an apartment from AYY in time for your exchange.

To maximize your chances of receiving an apartment, please apply before 15.7.! We will start to offer apartments to exchange students around this time and if you are not in the queue before that, you might miss your chance of receiving an apartment from AYY!

For more info about applying, please see applying to AYY apartments info page.

AYY’s furnished apartments have been created their own apartment queues in the Campus system. Exchange students are priority when offering furnished apartments. Furnished apartments will only be offered to degree students, if there are apartments left after offering the apartments to exchange students.

Furnished apartments are rented out with fixed term contracts, with maximum duration of one year. This way AYY can be sure to always have furnished apartments available for new exchange students at the beginning of school terms.

Apartments offered through the queues of furnished apartments will next become available on the 1.1.2014. Exchange students who wish to get a furnished AYY apartment for the spring term should apply before 15.11.2013. At that date AYY will receive lists directly from the university on incoming exchange students and accept the applications into the queue. The order of the applications made by exchange students before 15.11.2013 will be randomized. All applications made after 15.11.2013 will be accepted into the queue immediately, but they will be lower on the queue than all the applications made before 15.11.2013.

Applications of incoming exchange students will not be accepted before 15.11.2013. They will wait approval until AYY receives the lists from the Aalto University.

For the year 2014, furnished apartments situated in Helsinki will mostly be offered to students designated by the Aalto BIZ.

See also: /wp-content/uploads/asumisen_pisteytys_A4-ENG.pdf

Comments and questions can be addressed to the Housing Specialist Jaakko Koivula (firstname.surname@ayy.fi).

The new housing regulations now also in visual form!

Check here what scores you can get to each housing type and on what basis: Infographic about scoring of AYY housing applications

The scoring regulations in text format.