Student affordability concerns are at the heart of a record-breaking spike in applications for campus housing this year, according to a services director with the University of Calgary.
Alex Simard and Hans Go are rooming together for their first year of university.
Shane Royal, the U of C's director of ancillary services — an operations group responsible for student accommodations — points to a number of factors spurring the trend, including the rental crunch in the city. Just more than 3,000 people moved into the University of Calgary's housing on Sunday, of which around 1,200 are international students and 1,250 are first-year students — including lifelong friends Hans Go and Alex Simard, who made their way west from Swan River, Man.
Prior to the pandemic years, the demand for housing was flat, at an increase of about one to two per cent annually, according to Royal."We have started a process where we're doing a housing master plan to understand our requirement for the next 10 years so that we're being thoughtful about what we're building," he said.
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