On-campus residences at University of Calgary, SAIT and Mount Royal University are all completely spoken for, leaving some students scrambling for a place to live ahead of the fall semester.
Calgary's tight rental market is creeping onto post-secondary campuses, with the city's three biggest institutions completely full for housing, with hundreds on wait lists.
"This is unprecedented, honestly, in my time at least — and I think since West Residence was built 20 years ago, that we've had to put a waitlist together," said Mark Keller, director of residences services at MRU. "We have also placed ads in community newsletters, which will be distributed this month, with the goal of informing Calgarians of the housing shortage impacting our students, and an appeal asking people to consider renting out spare bedrooms," a statement reads.
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