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🎩 Reintroducing Studenthaus

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👋 Reintroducing Studenthaus

It’s time we built cities for the next generation.

Creating future proof cities is challenging. Predicting societal trends, addressing affordability, listening to the needs of future homeowners and renters. None of these are simple.

The reality is that to model stakeholder values decades out, you need a thorough understanding of what matters to the next generation. The perspectives of youth should be driving housing policy, real estate investment strategy, development, and research, yet a lack of intel leaves young Canadians consistently underrepresented.

That’s why we’re building Studenthaus, because if you don’t have a seat at the table, you can always bring your own chair.

We envision a future where decision-makers work alongside young Canadians to develop a vision for our cities. While researching youth opinion, we’ve learned a lot about what matters (and given away more than $10,000 to students). Young Canadians have diverse needs, but three similarities stand out – a shift away from cars, a desire for 15-minute cities, and a critical lack of affordability.

Canada’s national housing agency (CMHC) says we need more than 3 million new homes by 2030 to reach affordability. That means the time is now to double down and execute – we need more of all kinds of housing to hit this target and deliver affordability.

We’ve grown from full-time students focused on local impact to a team serving a spectrum of industry leading clients who are pioneering the future of housing in Canada.

We’ve spent the last six months powering some of the largest student housing projects, policies, and campaigns in Canada, and we’re just getting started.

As we champion young voices to the forefront of this discussion, we’ll keep working with a broad spectrum of partners — non-profits, public sector, and private sector — to ensure we equitably represent what young Canadians actually want.

By subscribing, you’ve already joined the movement. Check out our new website and stay tuned.

🧩 More from Studenthaus

🗂 Rental resources

Whether it’s your first time living on your own or you’ve been renting for years, this is the time of year that lots of young people are considering their future housing plans.

Is your landlord illegally entering your unit, trying to change your agreement without your consent, or unreasonably preventing you from having overnight guests?

If so, and you can’t quite figure out how to word a message to your landlord, check out the list of template letters from BC’s Tenant Resource and Advisory Centre to help you out.

There’s even a template roommate agreement.

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