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Originally Posted by SebC
Short-term rentals are a necessary part of the housing supply, particularly in places with low vacancies, unless you want people renting units they haven't even had a chance to look at and lowered labour mobility.
Scapegoating AirBnB for housing costs isn't a real solution to the real problem, which is that we don't zone for and build enough housing in the places where people want to live.
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this is a bit of a retort to your comment about Air B&B being good for housing supply.
Quebec's new Airbnb legislation could be a model for Canada — and help ease the housing crisis
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montr...tion-1.6838625
Regulating short-term rentals effectively could help alleviate a strained housing market in many parts of Canada, said Wachsmuth, who has studied the impact of Airbnb on the market.
His 2019 research found that the company had likely resulted in the removal of 31,000 units from Canada's long-term rental market.
In Montreal, where many boroughs already have rules in place prohibiting or limiting short-term rentals, the changes could put thousands of apartments back on the market.
Nearly 30,000 ads were posted on Airbnb in February, for instance, and nearly 80 per cent of the places advertised were not licensed for short-term rentals, according to a survey conducted by a local tenants group, RCLALQ.