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

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    1 year ago

    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.

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      1 year ago

      This is a replacement for the funding withdrawn from the government over the years.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

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        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.