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Old Posted Nov 18, 2015, 6:19 PM
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UBC's answer to Vancouver's heated real estate market? Micro units

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Imagine a bed, a desk, a wardrobe, a kitchen, and a bathroom, all packed into the size of a parking spot. Called "micro units," they are the new design plan at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, the most expensive real estate market in the country.

A scarcity of rental housing coupled with demand has created a "rent increase tsunami," as one realtor told the Vancouver Sun this summer. At its peak this summer, 6,300 students at UBC's Vancouver campus were on the wait list; the demand rolling in from international students and domestic students who want to live on campus. "There's a wait list of several thousand people every year. People who apply often don't get [housing,]" says Will McDonald, 23, coordinating editor of the campus newspaper, the Ubyssey.

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The idea at UBC is to make living on campus more affordable for students by making it more compact. The decision to go micro came out of conversations with student leaders, who said they "could imagine living in a much smaller space and spending $300 less per month," says Andrew Parr, UBC's managing director of student housing and hospitality services. Parr then consulted a larger group.

Sixty-one micro units, about 140 sq. feet, are scheduled to open by the summer of 2019—about 10 per cent of the total rental spaces in the new four-tower, 630-bed Gage South Student Residence. The micro units would go for $670 to $690 a month, compared to the current average rent on campus of about $1,000 a month.
http://www.macleans.ca/education/ubc...t-micro-units/
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