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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.

I worry anything like this would be a gateway to other anti-immigrant sentiment. Immigrants are good for the economy everywhere in the first world, it's just that they're also highly unpopular most places, and I'd like to keep our advantage in tolerance.

Housing affordability one of the main issues as cabinet meets for three days in P.E.I.

I lived in Charlottetown for a bit, and the students don't have anywhere to stay either. Before the pandemic, enrollment was way down because there was just nowhere to live.

AirBNBs everywhere though. There was this one apartment building being built, that was only greenlit under the condition that it wouldn't become short term rentals, that surprise, just before it was finished they changed their mind and opened it up to short term rentals.

Under 1% vacancy even during the parts of the year where there weren't any students.

They're going to look at it and do nothing, just like all the others parties.

I think the lifting of the immigration quota needed to be handled better. All three governments needed to work together to have a concerted housing plan to accommodate immigrants.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

"I think that's one of the options that we ought to consider," federal Housing, Infrastructure and Communities Minister Sean Fraser told reporters as the Liberal cabinet gathered in Charlottetown on Monday.

"There are good private institutions out there and separating the wheat from the chaff is going to be a big focus of the work that I tried to do with [Immigration Minister Marc] Miller."

Addressing the housing crisis is one of the main goals of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's new cabinet as it meets for the traditional retreat before Parliament returns next month.

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre accused Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of doing just that during his own media availability in Ottawa on Monday.

Trudeau defended his government's immigration policies when questioned Monday morning by reporters about whether Canada's housing supply can keep up with its rapid population growth.

"Yes, there's much more we need to do on housing, and we're continuing to step up with record investments and partnerships with municipalities and provinces," he said during a stop at the Island Montessori Academy in Cornwall, P.E.I.

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