How Saskatchewan’s rental housing shortage is affecting students

Saskatchewan is facing a lodging proviso issue, pinch immoderate experts saying if nary caller homes are added to nan market, proviso will tally retired successful 1 and a half months.

This rumor is affecting everyone, including students.

“For nan assemblage crowd and nan Sask Polytech crowd that are coming backmost looking for student housing, I’m really hopeful that they secured that lodging anterior to their departure, astatine nan extremity of April, early May, because it’s going to beryllium a grind retired location to find good, suitable housing,” said Cameron Choquette, nan Saskatchewan Landlord Association’s CEO.

With nan lodging proviso truthful debased successful nan province, Choquette said that while residence astatine schoolhouse is simply a awesome option, if that does not activity out, location apt won’t beryllium overmuch prime connected wherever students tin live.

The University of Saskatchewan said successful a connection to Global News that “USask residence has received a higher number of applications complete nan past 2 years and is presently astatine 100 per cent occupancy.”

“USask’s McEown parkland residences location 600 students and correspond nan astir affordable student lodging successful Canada.”

The University of Regina said it is experiencing astir 60 to 70 much applications a twelvemonth for residence but luckily, it has nan space.

“We person dorms and we person apartments. And, we are still capable to accommodate much applications,” said Bettina Welsh, U of R head of ancillaries and finance for student affairs. “We person nan luxury successful Regina to person a batch of abstraction successful nan organization and connected campus.”

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The U of R added that successful nan fall, it anticipates astir 100 students surviving connected campus, which is conscionable nether 10 per cent of students.

The University of Saskatchewan added that moreover though its occupancy is astatine 100 per cent, it still encourages students to use and get connected nan wait-list because occupancy for surviving connected field tin alteration passim nan twelvemonth for a assortment of reasons.

USask said if a student is emotion overwhelmed aliases stressed astir uncovering lodging to scope retired to their school. The schools whitethorn beryllium capable to link you pinch a schoolhouse counsellor aliases a societal worker to help.