Students are pictured on campus at University Canada West in Vancouver, B.C., on Thursday, May 23, 2024.
Aneet Kaur tries to spend as much time out of the house as she can. The 32-year-old international student from India shares a two-bedroom basement suite with five other people in the Surrey, B.C., neighbourhood of Fleetwood."The room size is too small. How can three people live there?" she said. "There is no storage capacity in there. How can I put more stuff in there?"
In the ten Canadian municipalities with the largest number of international students, 25 to 63 per cent of them were living in unsuitable housing. The study, which was based on the most recent census data, found country of origin accounted for most of the variation between municipalities in rates of housing suitability among international students.
Meanwhile only 16.6 per cent of Canadian-born students in Surrey lived in housing considered unsuitable by the statistics agency.Statistics Canada found about two thirds of international students living in Surrey lived in unsuitable housing. have raised concerns over the sharp rise in international students in Canada, including added pressure on the housing market, as well as the affordability challenges students face themselves.
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