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Originally Posted by Galakanokis
The kid paying $2200, it was all he could find. He figures he applied to over 50 places with two call backs. It's an older one bedroom off of commercial and Venables. Don't know the exact location but he needed transit or close to work so he looked in that area. He had a 6 month rental for a bachelor pad in the basement of a house off of first and Renfrew when he first moved here in March. That cost him $1400. It's no just the cost is the availability.
The van is included. But there are stories of people paying $1K to pitch a tent in the yard. Or the guy that put a loft bed and a toilet in his shed and charged $1200 for it. A one bedroom in Yaletown got divided up in to 5 sleep spaces with office dividers and charged $500 a piece. Those were from a year or two ago.
I agree it's nuts and I do wonder why people do it. Perhaps they think it is temporary until they can find something else? I thought myb rental was going to be temporary but housing just kept going up and up. The guy at work absolutely feels trapped. Came out from New Brunswick and wants to work in film...
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This is straight up Hong Kong ####. Soon it will be a room full of cages to sleep in.