BCIT president and B.C. minister hope new student rooms will offer solution to housing woes.
The British Columbia Institute of Technology has marked the start of construction of 470 new dorm rooms with high hopes that the development will offer students support and more beds amid B.C.’s housing crisis.
Not only are domestic students struggling with the province's high rent and competitive market, but international students, who are enrolling in B.C.s post-secondary schools at increasing rates, face similar problems. BCIT is one of eight post-secondary institutions in B.C. with on-campus housing. When completed, the project will add 470 new beds, bringing the campus total to 770. The development is the first student housing built on BCIT’s campus in 40 years, and is expected to be completed by 2025.
A built-in support system Shian Corbeil, a financial planning diploma student at BCIT, spoke at the event about coming from Vancouver Island to live on campus.
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