I was wondering if anyone has any experience transfering to a Canadian University from the United States.
I know someone who many years ago transferred from a “so-so” US university to McGill. One daughter was also accepted at McGill from a US high school, but chose to go somewhere else (in the US). My other daughter also went to high school in the US and is currently attending a small university in Canada.
Since you specifically mention housing but didn’t mention a school I can only comment very generally. This is going to depend upon which Canadian university you attend. Housing is very scarce and expensive in Vancouver and Toronto. I have heard that Calgary is also bad for housing but I have no idea whether the oil downturn has impacted this. Housing is much easier to find at more reasonable prices in Montreal. For other locations, it will vary quite a bit depending upon where you will be attending university.
Thank you very much for your response. I was specifically wondering about on campus dorm housing for transfer students. For example, I know that Queen’s University doesn’t offer housing to transfer students, in fact they only offer housing to freshman students. If you hear of any school that does offer housing, I’d love to hear about it 
@bh2021 Which schools are you looking at?
If you are planning on transferring to any of the universities in Toronto, then I would be concerned about the ability to find affordable off-campus housing. However, it seems like students there do find places to live.
For Dalhousie or McGill or Concordia, I think that you have a very different situation, and I would not be particularly concerned. The person I know who transferred from a so-so US university to McGill did live off campus for at least most of his time there. Similarly, for the small “primarily undergraduate” universities in eastern Canada that we considered, I don’t think that there would be any problem at most of them and we haven’t had any problems in finding housing.
Also, from a different thread it looks like you are still a high school student. What is your situation? What are you looking for in a university?
The issue you may have with university-owned housing is that transfer admissions is usually late in the cycle each year. By then, current students would have put in their housing requests for the following year. U of T has many, many residences but they are likely full by the time you are likely to hear a transfer decision. Contrary to the comment by @DadTwoGirls , generally speaking, it isn’t difficult for U of T students to find off-campus housing. In fact, most students get apartments together after first or second year. You would probably have better luck doing that, getting a place with roommates, but you’d have to be on top of things with the U of T housing site as well as any of the U of T Facebook housing pages.
As mentioned above, your ability to find housing, the type of housing you want, the price you want to pay, will all vary by location. Every university accepts transfer students and, somehow, they all find housing!
Hundreds of thousands of students find housing in Canada every year. It’s not that hard. Toronto and Vancouver are not more expensive than LA, NYC, the Bay area, DC, Boston, etc. All schools have housing offices to help in that regard.