Granting an ever-growing number of these visas to people who we know will struggle to find housing is unethical at best
Housing is a complicated issue. It will take co-ordination, cash, and time to fix. But in the short term, there is at least one glaringly obvious – if surely controversial – way to help ease the challenge of finding affordable rental accommodation: We need to stop issuing so many international student visas.
International students, who actually dwarf the population of temporary foreign workers at the moment, comprise aboutFurther, the majority of those students are opting for schools where housing is exceptionally expensive and difficult to find – namely, in big cities in Ontario and British Columbia. And these visas don’t come with anything else – that is, the schools don’t need to provide housing for the students they bring in. Student housing is annoying and expensive and a pain to manage, and most schools know that, which is why they are not particularly keen to do it. That’s why Canada’s stock of purpose-built student housingThis isn’t an isolated problem, either.
And while there will be no quick fix, no silver bullet – at least one answer is painfully obvious, no?
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