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Originally Posted by adamuptownsj

Not sure about Moncton but Fredericton has a lot of sprawling old student housing and Saint John apartments, at least the older ones, run big.

A lot of the 'affordability crisis' is people not wanting to accept one neighborhood with high rents. For example, rents have definitely gone up in the northwestern half of the South End of Saint John, but it's still dirt cheap in much of the North end and the Lower West. The lower South and Waterloo Village have seen increases but a lot of that is renovations putting vacants and substandfard housing back in the market.

This is not a fair comparison in Fredericton. Rents have gone way up in every properly urban neighbourhood except maybe Devon.