Housing shortfall, costs and affordability

[tomh009]

This less cause and more effect of high housing costs: students from lower-income countries pay high tuition fees and then need to deal with rising housing costs, so they look for additional income, from McDonalds or elsewhere.

The government has basically turned them into TFWs.

Only on a temporary part-time basis. Permanent work at McDonalds will not get you PR status, technical work at a software company will.