Housing woes for international students have made headlines in recent weeks as they grapple with lack of housing, inadequate placements or fake admissions offers.
Some say what drove them to come to Canada in the first place was a good education and opportunities. Now that they're here, they're feeling squeezed.Anubhav Gupta, 24, Saint Mary’s University, Halifax
"There's such an extreme shortage of supply that you can't find a place at all to begin with and then the ones you do find there is no quality control.... That's why you hear so many students falling for scams or paying deposits and the place doesn't exist and all that stuff.” “But most places are either becoming available Sept. 1 or Sept. 7. So there's a lot of couch-surfing going on right now,” says Gupta, who paid a $200"stayover fee" to gain early access to his new flat.
"I was scrambling and I was stressed about whether I was going to be homeless or not," she says of her search. She says Calgary has been attracting more people because it's considered a cheaper city to live in. But the province does not have rent control, and many units are beyond student budgets. But the Jamaican transplant admits that he, too, has been overwhelmed by the cost of living in Canada and struggles to cover his share of roughly $2,100 in monthly rent for a one-bedroom-plus den that he shares with his younger brother.
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