B.C. students caught in Vancouver’s housing crunch

The Georgia Straight highlighted students’ difficulties finding housing in the Lower Mainland.

The article reported on UBC’s efforts to build more student housing and quoted Andrew Parr, UBC’s managing director of student housing and hospitality services.

Parr said that UBC has built 3,000 new bed spaces in the last seven years, with another 600 beds expected to be added by 2019 at Brock Commons