Canada’s costly housing market leaves international students open to exploitation

Skyrocketing rent prices in Canada’s major cities are leaving more and more people struggling to find an affordable place to live. National conversations about the housing crisis often overlook a growing segment of the population that is extremely vulnerable to housing discrimination, rent gouging, rights abuses and sexual harassment: international students. Canada had more than 807,000 international students […]

StudentDwellTO: York, U of T, OCAD U, Ryerson students and faculty take on affordable housing in massive joint research project

TORONTO, August 29, 2017 ─ The presidents of Toronto’s four universities – York University, the University of Toronto, OCAD University, and Ryerson University – have teamed up for a new initiative called StudentDwellTO to tackle one of the biggest issues facing post-secondary students in the Greater Toronto area: affordable housing. The initiative brings together nearly […]