Oshawa’s Student Housing Battle
Oshawa has hosted students renting in this city ever since Durham College was established in the late 1960’s. With this smaller campus quite north of the main city, students were hardly noticed. Quite the difference a few decades later to the overwhelming presence of a college aged population, Oshawa is becoming something of a University town. Trent University has expanded their Oshawa branch once placed in the middle of Durham College, now to their own official campus further south near the Civic centre. The biggest influence on the student boom has been UOIT which was founded in 2002 on the northern campus of Durham College, on donated land from Windfield Farms. The last ten years have dramatically changed the landscape, attitude and housing market of Oshawa.
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Posted by Randy Ramadhin
on January 9, 2012