The 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.
student housing
Student renters especially vulnerable to being taken advantage of by landlords and vice-versa, experts say.
Ottawa city councillor Mathieu Fleury is exploring the idea of launching a pilot project to start licensing landlords in order to better protect tenants’ rights.
Housing services allegedly denied student’s request to terminate lease.
As 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.
Rock, 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.
Despite these strict stipulations, droves of U of O students are still jumping at the chance to register for housing placements at Bytown.
If you’re designing a building from scratch, and you have in mind that it should be for students, you design things differently
“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.”
“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.”
