on the housing crisis. In Peterborough, Ont., and Cape Breton, N.S., students are calling on universities to freeze enrolment growth.The colleges and universities CBC News contacted say they're aware of the issue. The University of Guelph said in an email it is reaching out to hotels in the city to try and house students, and that it will be conducting surveys about housing demand.
Conestoga College, which recently announced it is building a new campus in downtown Guelph that will host 5,000 students, said in an email it recognizes "the importance of meeting student needs" but offered no further details about any housing plan.0:53 It's a growing problem in university and college towns across the country, but in Southern Ontario cities like Guelph and Waterloo, students Alexandra Mussar and Rahish Jariya say the market is abysmal and is in urgent need of fixing.
Moffatt said he thinks schools, with help from goverments, need to build more residences, while any plan to boost enrolment should ensure housing supply keeps pace with demand."There's no one silver bullet to fixing the housing crisis. It's a lot of little changes from all levels of government and higher education," he said. "It's a big, hairy complicated problem and it's going to require a lot of co-ordination and working together.