Students stuck paying rent away from home as universities go fully remote

The 23-year-old is one of many post-secondary students who are locked into off-campus lease agreements despite moving back home when classes moved online.

Haroune said she moved to Ottawa in September 2019 to attend classes, but moved back home after the provincial state of emergency forced the school to close its doors in March and move all courses online. In the early days of the pandemic, students in other parts of the province petitioned to have their rent fees waived as classes moved online and they moved out.

Mehdi, who shared a home with four roommates and pays around $600 a month in rent and utilities, said many students who renewed their leases in February had no way of knowing what they were in for. Benjamin Ries, a housing lawyer at Downtown Legal Services at the University of Toronto, said there are some potential remedies for the situations Haroune, Mehdi and others find themselves in.

Take them to court

Hahahahahaha the idiots in these comments. It’s funny cause none of them are students.

No student should be paying 1950 a month for room and board. I think some bad decisions led to that.

Reduce it to 30 percent seems fair.

Yes university of Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier already doing their term now as they go year round and students has to still pay rent even though most moved home for online courses landlords still made them pay!

All parents and students must raise their voice.

My daughter has the same problem. The Landlord does not care at all. Laurier University has done nothing to help the students. I call the Government to intervene. Landlords refused to offer anything as a discount. We pay rent for nothing. No classes. No activities. Nothing

So move back into it like what 😂

So this lazy person is sitting home collecting CERB instead of working. Then complains about having to pay rent for an expensive apartment she decided not to live in. Why whine? Real taxpayers are paying her rent while she sits around doing nothing.

20 years ago I had to make the choice of staying local and living within my means or going away for party central and going into massive debt. I chose the financially sound option.

Says who a student need to live in a $20000/mo units. There are plenty of way cheaper places to live. And says who students can’t travel? Does it have to be dt Toronto? Are we supposed to feel sorry for students that can pay for that kind of rent ?

Ummm. No.

I don’t know why ppl r calling for more rent/price control for rent. In the long run, harsh regulation will discourage investments in rental units. This is why there are so few rental apt being built in the last 20 yrs or so.

there systematically trying to make everyone broke, lets flip the script and make them broke instead.... viva revolution is in order

LOL ArmageddonWatchzzz

That's a legitimate concern, why would you pay for housing when you don't actually have to attend

Put little kids in school and not adults

Paying $1,950 a month - as a student - is a bit ridiculous to begin with. When I was in school, it was all about shared housing, roommates and tons of KD to keep life cheap.

Did you go to Hollywood upstairs medical college too?

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