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International students in Canada are struggling to find places to stay due to the housing crisis that the country is facing.As the CBC News reports, students have been facing difficulties in finding places to stay across the Halifax due to the widespread effects of the housing crisis in the province and the COVID-19 outbreak.Students are also struggling to find affordable housing as the prices have increased. According to another report by CBC, the price for a single family home has increased by 33.5 percent in one year. Meanwhile, Umme Mim Mohsin from Bangladesh, a master’s student at Dalhousie University, said that while searching for accommodation, students didn’t have many options to choose from.She told the Canadian media that she was lucky to find a place, which she says is not even a room, after members of the Bangladeshi community helped her while she was searching, however she decided to rent the place just to have somewhere to stay.Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation report, that was published earlier in 2022, revealed that the vacancy percentage in Halifax is only one percent, the lowest rate in the country. The same source indicates that the population in the city and province has grown, worsening the housing issues. In Nova Scotia, the current number of international students is 12,939 students, with Dalhousie University alone hosting a considerable number of international students, 4,000 every year.In 2019, Nova Scotia welcomed 12,000 international students.Students studying in other countries are also facing difficulties to find accommodation, particularly affordable rooms. It has lately been reported that around 500 students in Belgium have been looking for housing, but there were only 60 rooms available.College students in the US are also in a similar situation as the housing prices have increased.