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Ottawa considering a cap on international students to ease housing pressure, says Fraser (www.cbc.ca)
submitted 3 years ago by RehRomano@lemmy.ca to c/canada@lemmy.ca
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Housing affordability one of the main issues as cabinet meets for three days in P.E.I.

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[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 16 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Post secondary institutions are using international students as a source of funding, so the institutions should ensure there's reasonable housing available for the people they're making promises to.

From a summary of the national housing accord:

Colleges and universities should be given funding and instructed to build on-campus student housing to support a rapidly growing population of international students or risk losing their status as designated learning institutions, which would eliminate their ability to bring in those international students.

Some schools are doing a great job, but most don't.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 children)

This is a replacement for the funding withdrawn from the government over the years. At least for the large, established universities and colleges.

[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 years ago

Yup. It's part of the result of the austerity/spending cuts of the 90s. Around the same time the last of the cuts to non-market housing occurred.

I'd argue we should be funding our universities directly, rather than extracting cash from (mostly) developing countries. But I think that's separate from the housing conversation.