First-year University of Calgary students feel the squeeze of student housing shortage

Sunday was a move-in day with a twist for some University of Calgary students, namely that there wasn’t anywhere for them to move in to. A record-high number of first-year students, more than 1,300, are moving into residences, causing such a housing squeeze that the university is renting 51 rooms at the Aloft Hotel while it works to expand its student housing supply. Shane Royal, the senior director of ancillary services at the U of C, said there’s nothing that quite matches the ener