Population and Housing

[tomh009]

And when they do try to promote public housing solutions that aren't literally garden sheds from Home Depot in some plot of grass nobody can see, it's negotiating with wealthy developers: we'll approve your condo project if you agree to throw some pocket change into our affordable housing piggy bank so we can act like we're doing something.

That's not an entirely fair characterization. Here is my quick list of recent/current projects with substantial (50-100%) affordable units in the region:

• St Mark's Place
  
• 581-595 Langs Drive
  
• Three former regional houses on Mill St
  
• New Hamburg feed mill project
  
• House of Friendship project at Charles/Eby
  
• Making Home project at 83-97 Victoria
  
• Knossos project at 206 Duke St E
  
• OneROOF project on King St E
  
• 544 Bridgeport Rd E
  

I'm sure there is more yet.

As for international students, having talked to quite a few (Conestoga) international students about housing, they are living the same way most university/college students are: by sharing houses and apartments. And, once they are employed, they are generally getting their own apartments, or sometimes sharing with a roommate if they are single.