Kitchener\u002Dbased college adds multiple student residences as housing crisis continues
, he said the college had recently purchased a 12-storey building in downtown Kitchener to use as a student residence. The former office building at 22 Frederick St. is across the street from the college’s downtown campus.in Waterloo, and plans to build yet another at its Doon campus in Kitchener.
This follows news in April that Conestoga had bought a former office building in Guelph – the Co-operators building at 130 Macdonell St. – with plans to turn it into aAt the time, Tibbits said the college might have academic space on the first few floors of the eight-storey building, with the rest converted into dorms. “We know we need housing,” he said. “But it will be purpose built. That’s what we need.
One of the prime drivers in Canada’s ongoing housing crisis is the increase in international students in recent years. The University of Toronto, which leads the province of Ontario inAdvertisement 3Seneca College and Conestoga are in second and third place in the province with about 12,800 international students each. But Conestoga had fewer than 1,000 such students in 2015, representing an enormous growth since that time.
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