KEVIN RUSSELL: Student housing crunch predictable, avoidable

By KEVIN RUSSELL • Guest Opinion

As university and college students look for a place to live in Nova Scotia, many are finding it next to impossible.

One official from Nova Scotia Community College was quoted in the media this past week as saying, “We see a reduction in the amount of units available for rent. We believe a lot of property owners have actually sold multi-unit properties to single families and so that takes units off the market.”

Link to resource: None of this should be surprising, as private-sector rental housing providers warned PC, Liberal and NDP politicians last fall what would happen with a multi-year rent cap.

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