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.
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.
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.
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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:
Some schools are doing a great job, but most don’t.
This is a replacement for the funding withdrawn from the government over the years. At least for the large, established universities and colleges.
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.