Students face surging rental market ahead of fall return to classes

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When Meaghan Hines moves into a rental apartment ahead of her fifth year at the University of Waterloo in Ontario it will be a massive relief.

After months of searching, the biology student thought she finally found a place in mid-July, but once she delivered a deposit and signed a lease, she discovered the landlord had taken on too many tenants.

Some of the surge is attributable to a rebound in immigration rates and people returning to city centres for work just as a drop in home sales and prices have spooked some sellers into renting out their properties instead. Rentals.ca found average rents in Canada amounted $1,934 in July, an increase of 10.4 per cent since last year and only $20 below the pre-pandemic peak of $1,954 in September 2019.

"I'm going to have to negotiate even harder for a higher salary or look for a co-op that provides more just because I don't think I'll be able to keep up with the rent," he said. "Since I work night shifts, there are times I was there until 4 a.m. and the next morning again, I had to go to school," she said.

 

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Poor students….what about poor families having to pay an extra $100+ for natural gas alone to hear their homes, in addition to other utilities and high cost of living - time to hold supermarkets accountable for their gouging of prices JustinTrudeau

High levels of migration are putting pressure on housing, education, health care. Time to lower the numbers drastically for the next 10 years.

Stay home commute ...study at uni nearby Ottawa Hamilton Toronto or one of the colleges

Sadly the boomers were the last generation to have it good. Everyone after will have to settle for a tougher time or just less of everything.

Anyone born after the early 90’s really is paying for the clown show leaders of the past and present…

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