For many people, the rising cost of rent has been hard to keep up with, but it’s been especially difficult for international students, who already have a lot on their plates with more expensive tuition and other barriers that come with starting from scratch in a new country.
As the start of the fall semester looms, it’s been a mad rush for university and college students still looking for a place to stay.
For Lovish Chugh, an international student from Ontario’s University of Waterloo, high rent and limited options made it difficult to find a place before classes start in September.
“I just found a place last
