Juno News - The Canadian rental market is out of control!

00:00:00.000 Well, one of the most obvious consequences to the Liberal government's commitment to mass

00:00:10.760 immigration over the past eight years was that it would become impossible for Canadians to live

00:00:15.320 and raise families in the cities that they grew up in. To think that this obvious consequence

00:00:19.400 wasn't known by the government before they embarked on this reckless strategy would be 0.93

00:00:23.660 ridiculous. They knew full well what would happen. Which makes you wonder, since this wasn't done

00:00:28.800 for the betterment of Canadians, who was this done for exactly? Maybe it was done for large

00:00:33.700 corporations in this country who would benefit from an endless stream of cheap foreign labor.

00:00:38.300 Regardless of who it was done for, we can all be assured that this wasn't done for us.

00:00:43.100 Another obvious consequence to the mass immigration agenda put in place by the government 0.98

00:00:47.240 would be that affordable rental options in this country would get to such depressing and awful

00:00:52.240 levels that stories would come out of 25 international students sharing a single Brampton

00:00:58.600 basement apartment. Canadians having to share bunk beds, living in bathrooms, and sleeping in 0.84

00:01:05.820 hallways on a mattress. But hey, it's Canada. How bad can things really be? We're going to be doing

00:01:11.020 some rental shopping on this episode of Ratio to see what I can find on a low budget. But before we do

00:01:16.660 that, make sure to drop a like in the video. Help us out by subscribing to the True North YouTube channel.

00:01:20.640 And the common question for the episode is this. Are you currently struggling to find an affordable

00:01:25.900 place to live? Let me know in the comments below and let's get into it. All right. Well, it's time

00:01:31.020 to do some rental shopping, some low budget rental shopping in this country. Our budget is under a

00:01:36.920 thousand dollars. And I think before we get into this, let me just say that to describe the current

00:01:42.600 state of Canada's low cost rental market, well, it'd be difficult, but words like depressing and

00:01:49.000 awful come to mind. First, we were tipped off on some of these listings by the people over on the

00:01:54.060 subreddit, Canada Housing 2 and Riley Donovan over at the Dominion Review. Go give them a read.

00:01:59.520 But let's just jump straight into this. So like I said before, our budget is under a thousand

00:02:04.400 dollars. And we're looking at options all across the country. But of course, the majority of these

00:02:09.640 listings are right around the GTA area, a lot in Brampton, Mississauga area, of course. Let's just jump

00:02:15.300 into the first one here. For $500 a month, you can live in what appears to be the back of a basement

00:02:24.580 in an unfinished, I don't even know what to describe this as really. You've got, you've definitely got

00:02:30.660 some unfinished walls here. As Riley Donovan says, they're going for a minimalist look. This is sort of

00:02:36.260 what I would consider maybe a jailhouse chic style here. You do have like a nice bedside table. It's a little

00:02:43.760 bit tight, but I think you can make it work. We don't know what the state of the bathroom looks

00:02:48.760 like. But given that this is what the state of the bed looks like, I'm sure the bathroom isn't much

00:02:54.720 better. You do have an escape route in case of a fire. You can somehow manage to get yourself to out

00:03:03.480 of this little window crawl space. And you do get a little bit of fresh air. So, you know, yes, you might

00:03:10.420 be dealing with a lot of rodents and insects and whatever else comes with it, but a bed, a nice

00:03:16.860 lamp and a bedside table, you get a bathroom. This is not that bad. I mean, it's not Versailles, but

00:03:23.640 you know, it'll do for $500, I think. Some of the, some of the comments under this are great.

00:03:29.840 This looks like a room a serial killer would keep their victims in. I can get that room for free by

00:03:35.180 breaking the law. I think cells are larger. I think Anglo-Quebecer here might be correct 1.00

00:03:41.560 that a jail cell might in fact be larger than this. But then again, are you really getting as nice of a

00:03:47.780 bedside table with that nice lamp? I'm not quite sure. Now that was for $500. Now this is what you

00:03:53.380 can get for $350. It almost, it almost looks better. I'm not quite sure what I would want,

00:03:59.660 but for $350 in Brampton, you have the opportunity to rent out a bed. Yes, it happens to be a bed in

00:04:07.940 a kitchen, but then again, it is a bed and it's kind of got this interesting looking bed frame

00:04:12.380 and you're really close to the kitchen. So, you know, late night snacks, easily accessible,

00:04:16.880 that sort of thing. Here's the description of this listing here. Sharing space available in two

00:04:22.080 bedroom basement, maintain cleanliness in the newly furnished basement. Close to these two

00:04:27.480 intersections near to Sheridan College, Algoma University, No Frills, Scotiabank, TD Bank,

00:04:33.400 Shoppers Drug Mart. I mean, you're, you're right there. You're, you're right in the heart of Brampton.

00:04:38.060 This seems like a pretty decent deal. As a matter of fact, this listing, it turns out, made its way

00:04:42.760 to BlogTO. I can imagine that once it got published, demand just soared. Someone in Brampton is renting out

00:04:49.140 a single bed in the middle of a kitchen. So that's $350 in Brampton. You'd be saving $150 if you want to

00:04:55.600 live in a kitchen rather than in a jail cell. Up to you. Uh, but then again, this is all, this is,

00:05:02.200 this is all well below our budget of $1,000. Now you saw what was available for $500 in the GTA.

00:05:07.680 We're now going to bump this up to $690 in Montreal. In Montreal, you can rent out for $690

00:05:15.380 a bed in a bathroom. So you can actually live in a bathroom. And I guess this becomes your private

00:05:22.440 bathroom in a shared space. Then again, though, you can never really be sure what's going to happen

00:05:27.680 in these shared spaces. Maybe someone might need to use your bathroom that happens to be where your

00:05:31.900 bed is. But we've got some photos here of what this option looks like. This is a listing on Kijiji.

00:05:38.100 So as you can see here, it looks like you've got, I'm not quite sure, but you've got at least a screen

00:05:42.860 for the toilet area. So you can go to the bathroom in private, which happens to be in your own bedroom

00:05:48.800 as well. You've also got a tub. It doesn't appear to have a shower, but a tub, I guess, will suffice.

00:05:54.700 You've even got a, you got a, you got a table to dine at. You got your bed really close to the tub,

00:06:00.240 you know, really close there. So late nights, easy access, that sort of thing. That's $690 in

00:06:06.240 Montreal. You can live in a bathroom if that's what you want to do. Oh, and wifi is included.

00:06:11.820 So really what more could you want? You've got easy access to your own bathroom, seeing as how

00:06:16.880 you live in the bathroom and all of the other utilities are included. So now we're going to

00:06:21.240 go back to Brampton and back to that $500 territory. Now this one is pretty much exclusively for Indian 1.00

00:06:28.520 women. So, uh, if you are not an Indian woman, I guess this listing is out of, out of the market

00:06:34.140 for you. But if you do happen to be an Indian woman and you're looking for a low cost, low budget

00:06:39.520 rental option, you can rent a bed in this room for $500. There will be two other Indian women in 1.00

00:06:46.520 this room with you also sharing a bed. And it looks like there may be two desks to share.

00:06:52.100 So you'll also be having to share a desk. Here's the description for this shared bedroom with three

00:06:56.760 beds in it. One space available in a master bedroom for $500 non-negotiable, each plus 10% utilities,

00:07:04.580 more ideal for Indian female students, open to other cultures also, but need hygienic and well-mannered 1.00

00:07:11.540 people to share room with. As one person points out on the Canada Housing 2 subreddit where this

00:07:16.960 listing was found, this landlord is charging $1,500 for one bedroom. Unbelievable. And then another person

00:07:24.920 points out, he's doing it wrong. You can rent out the desk, remove it and add more beds.

00:07:30.220 What an absolute amateur. You can comfortably fit 12 people in that space with triple beds,

00:07:36.000 then rent out the use of each bed for eight hours every day. Do people not want to make money? No

00:07:41.420 wonder Canada is such a mess. So I guess if you're not an Indian female international student, and you're 0.96

00:07:46.680 still looking for perhaps a low cost rental option, maybe even under that $500 mark for $450, you can

00:07:55.320 rent out the bottom bunk in a bunk bed that happens to be in a kitchen. Check this out. This is in Toronto.

00:08:02.320 So downtown living here, folks. And as well, you get parking with this bottom bunk bed for $450. That's

00:08:09.060 quite a steal. Here's the description of this bottom bunk rental option here for $450. Bottom bunk bed

00:08:15.080 available for rent September 1st. Not a short-term rental. At least one year. Internet and hydro included

00:08:20.980 in the rent. No guest after 10 p.m. TV and radio can be used with headphones. You will stay in the

00:08:26.980 kitchen living room of a one bedroom condo, sharing it with two other working class males. One of them

00:08:32.660 stays in the bedroom and the other one stays in the top bunk bed. I guess I can see how having guests

00:08:37.800 after 10 p.m. in that space might get a little awkward. Now we found one more for you to highlight

00:08:42.560 just the true state of the Canadian low-cost rental market. For $400 a month, you can live

00:08:50.080 in downtown Toronto. Well, it's not really downtown. It's more like the O'Connor area. But hey,

00:08:54.400 compared to Brampton, this is downtown living. For $400, you can live in the hallway on a mattress

00:09:00.600 on the ground. There's no bed frame, but you can live in the hallway here. Take a look at this.

00:09:04.840 I'm wondering if it even comes with the bedding and that appears to be a sleeping bag.

00:09:08.980 I mean, look, this is pretty interesting. It's a little dirty in this space, but I guess that's

00:09:14.780 what can you really expect for $450 in Toronto. Now, hold on, hold on. I've just been informed of

00:09:21.480 one more low-cost rental option that's come across my desk that I want to share with you.

00:09:26.820 This one happens to be exclusively for a girl, as the listing description says, and you will be

00:09:32.460 sharing a bed and a room with a male occupant. Now, here's where the listing gets a little more

00:09:38.360 interesting. This is for $300 a month. And the girl who ends up taking up this offer and sharing 0.99

00:09:45.420 this bed with a male occupant, I wish this was fake, but it is real, it appears. The description

00:09:50.320 says this, room available for girl sharing with boy. Good behavior. Girl must know cooking. Rest of 0.92

00:09:57.240 the work boy will do. Ross room is in sharing and kitchen also. So for $300 a month, you get to share a

00:10:03.820 bed, but you also have to do the cooking. I guess the rest of the work will be done by this boy.

00:10:09.920 The English is a little shoddy, which makes me wonder who this is. I can only imagine who possibly 1.00

00:10:16.100 put this listing together, but I'll leave that for you to decide. Again, this is more of an exclusive

00:10:20.500 listing for females who are looking for a low-cost rental option and who happen to be good in the 0.84

00:10:27.080 kitchen. Now, there is a new trend for students who have a little bit more money, just over $1,000 a month,

00:10:31.960 not by any means rolling in dough here, but just a little bit more than the level of sharing a

00:10:38.000 basement apartment with a boy where you have to do all the cooking. And this trend appears to be

00:10:43.480 people living in hotels, renting out hotel rooms because it's actually cheaper than renting out

00:10:50.040 an apartment building. Take a look at this. Simple with a bed, bathroom, microwave, and fridge.

00:10:55.840 There's no kitchen, but it costs hundreds of dollars less to rent each month than the average one

00:11:01.080 bedroom in Toronto. There is no credit checks. There is no nothing. You come in, you pay today,

00:11:06.420 you pay a $500 deposit. The price, $2,000 a month compared to the average monthly rate for a one

00:11:12.180 bedroom in Toronto, which was $2,600 in November. You've got gym membership included. You've got

00:11:17.920 indoor, outdoor pool included. You've got Wi-Fi included. Your cable's included. Your parking is

00:11:24.380 included. You can have room service. You get housekeeping once per week.

00:11:29.300 The Toronto Don Valley Hotel and Suites General Manager, Kevin Porter, says roughly 60 of his 350

00:11:35.160 rooms have been set aside for this deal. He says he started it during the pandemic and some residents

00:11:40.220 have been living here for years. Now, if you happen to be in Brampton and you're really strapped

00:11:44.520 for cash and you can't make the $350 apartment living in the kitchen basement apartment work,

00:11:51.360 you can end up like one of the 25 international students who shared a single basement apartment

00:11:58.360 in Brampton. This was from Brampton Mayor Patrick Brown a few weeks ago who said this on TV. Take a

00:12:04.980 listen. You're going to be taking in 5,000 international students that have a plan for where they're going to

00:12:10.160 be housed. Just a few days ago in Brampton, I got a report from Bylaw where they found 25 students

00:12:16.000 living in a single basement apartment. Right now, we see international students living in fire traps, 1.00

00:12:23.600 extremely dangerous living conditions. If the colleges took the time to build student housing,

00:12:32.300 we wouldn't have that issue. I really want to see an alignment with the international student

00:12:37.960 visa approval process that there would be a housing address associated with it. So if you have a plan

00:12:42.860 to pay for tuition, there should also be a plan to be able to pay for proper housing.

00:12:48.400 What an absolute disaster. And to think that all of this was simply avoidable if we didn't embark on

00:12:54.520 this reckless strategy in the first place. All right, everyone, that's going to do it for us today

00:12:58.080 on the show. Thank you so much for tuning in. My name is Harrison Faulkner, and this is Radio.

Juno News - February 06, 2024

The Canadian rental market is out of control!

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