Reading Time: 10 minutesAs the student population booms at the University of Ottawa, finding housing is just as difficult as passing exams. Although the university has several on-campus residence options, how does a residence even get built? And are there more resources for students amid Ottawa’s housing crisis?
Reading Time: 2 minutesIf you want out of your lease you must find someone to take your lease, but if your apartment burns down — your landlord owes you nothing!
Reading Time: 3 minutesIf the university wants to pride itself worthy to attend. It needs to be ready to accommodate demand and protect those who chose to do so.
Reading Time: 2 minutesBy December of my first year I had lived in 3 different off-campus rentals, each worse than the last. I was looking for someplace cheap, someplace close to campus. I found this, and along with it, cockroaches, filth, and the strain of unfamiliar roommates.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe University of Ottawa is severely lacking a 1000-level course on the Sandy Hill housing market.
Reading Time: 4 minutes “It’ll be my first time living away from home on my own. But all of the exciting parts of that are taken away, because I’m worried about if I’ll find a place,” said second-year student Erin Peter.
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe Ottawa housing market can be a tough realm to navigate. Read up on some tips and tricks from tenant rights advocates, student renters, landlords, and mortgage brokers so you can find the best new pad that checks all your boxes.
Reading Time: 7 minutesStudent renters especially vulnerable to being taken advantage of by landlords and vice-versa, experts say.
Reading Time: 2 minutesOttawa city councillor Mathieu Fleury is exploring the idea of launching a pilot project to start licensing landlords in order to better protect tenants’ rights.
Reading Time: 2 minutesHousing services allegedly denied student’s request to terminate lease.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAs any student knows, the last thing we need is to lose money. I’m not talking about tuition, student loans, fees, the cost of books, and everything else; but keep that in mind when you find out that some students will lose $3,000 on top of all this.
Reading Time: 3 minutesRock, whose eight-year tenure as U of O president ends in June, says we’ll know who his successor is by the end of November. “The selection committee has been working really hard,” he said.
Reading Time: 2 minutesDespite these strict stipulations, droves of U of O students are still jumping at the chance to register for housing placements at Bytown.
Reading Time: 8 minutesIf you’re designing a building from scratch, and you have in mind that it should be for students, you design things differently
Reading Time: 3 minutes“We finally saw things as clearly as the residents of Sandy Hill,” said Stone. “Of course it makes more sense to demand our students travel across the city for classes, rather than expand to Sandy Hill. Those residents who campaigned against our residence proposal were there first. So even though they represent a small portion of the area’s population, I believe the golden rule has to apply: finders keepers, losers move to Kanata.”
Reading Time: 2 minutes“Some people think that students are too loud or their parties are too wild,” said committee member Jane Doh. “We realized the real issue is that Sandy Hill is located too close to the University of Ottawa. If we didn’t live so close to the university, we wouldn’t have these problems.”
