For many in B.C. finding a rental has become a full-time job, competition is fierce
Families in British Columbia are competing online for rentals in Canada’s toughest rental market, where an apartment is on average almost $2,500 a month. Housing policy experts say renters with few options are desperate — some even offering landlords perks — to try to find an affordable, or at least available place.
![Hudson and Jackson Forsyth-Beck started growing and selling vegetables and ended up running a Squamish farm stand. Now they are stuck with freezers full of produce, and no place to live. Two boys hold up cabbages that they are selling at a farm stand.](https://i.cbc.ca/1.7146721.1710707902!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/hudson-and-jackson-forsyth-beck-are-the-pickle-boys.jpg)
Families in British Columbia are competing online for rentals in Canada’s toughest rental market, where an apartment is on average almost $2,500 a month. Housing policy experts say renters with few options are desperate — some even offering landlords perks — to try to find an affordable, or at least available place.