Go East, Young Vancouverite: Responding to debt, underemployment and unaffordable housing
When: September 6, 2012 Time: 12:30-1:30 pm Location: SFU Vancouver, Harbour Centre, Room 1600
Young people in Vancouver are facing a perfect storm of high student debt, underemployment and unaffordable housing options. Increasingly, they are finding themselves pressured to “move east” as a response to the attitudes of government and industry. Whether it means moving to Fort McMurrary to accept the next available job, or moving to Surrey to find affordable housing – this conversation will explore the context of structural and demographic change in Vancouver and the Lower Mainland.
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Join former SFU graduate student Mike Soron, Executive Director of Sustainable SFU and Jonathan Cote, New Westminster City Councillor for an engaging discussion on September 6th at SFU Harbour Centre.
[Barbara Yaffe comments on the issue in The Sun: Jobs and affordable housing draw young people, families away from B.C.]
[Coincidentally, another piece: Are today’s Millennials the ‘screwed generation’? – from KPLU, the NPR station in Seattle.]
