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The student housing crisis that isn’t going away
EIC September 5, 2016Priced out of options Moving is awful. So is not knowing where you’re going to live for the upcoming semester. Everything about student accommodation in Vancouver nowadays is just terrible. Now, imagine you were being evicted from your affordable housing so that it could be demolished, and everything on the market was significantly higher than what you currently pay. Does that seem like something you could handle? The residents of the Louis Riel House at SFU were faced with that exact dilemma last summer when their building was condemned due to mould problems. Through grit and negotiations, some of them…
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An interview with Karen Sawatzky, the student going up against the Vancouver housing market
Peak Web July 11, 2016[dropcap]I[/dropcap]n the midst of a worsening housing crisis in Vancouver, one SFU student’s novel approach to figuring out the causes has blown up in the news. Meet Karen Sawatzky: previously a journalist and technical writer, and now a master’s student…
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