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Expert: Montreal residents decry Airbnb rentals

webfull — Tue, 11 Feb 2020 17:44:49 +0000

The sound of people vomiting at 3 a.m., neighbours who open their windows to scream “I love you, Montreal!” at all hours of the night and a frat house atmosphere taking over the building. This is how Manon Wascher describes the “Airbnb nightmare” she has gone through since the apartment complex she lives in on Guy St. was sold four years ago. Wascher says there are between 30 and 50 of the building’s 230 units being rented on the popular travel website.

Published: 11 February 2020

Airbnb is removing rental housing in Canadian cities and rural areas

webfull — Thu, 20 Jun 2019 11:06:39 +0000

The American online marketplace Airbnb has likely removed approximately 31,100 units from Canada’s long-term rental markets. This could make it difficult for Canadian cities and provinces to prevent growing housing affordability issues.

Published: 20 June 2019

The high cost of short-term rentals in New York City

webfull — Tue, 30 Jan 2018 15:15:15 +0000

A new report from McGill Urban Planning professor David Wachsmuth and his team provides an analysis of Airbnb activity in New York City and the surrounding region in the last three years (September 2014 - August 2017). Relying on new methodologies to analyze big data, here are some of the findings:

Published: 30 January 2018

NYT | Report slams Airbnb in NYC for raising cost of housing

webfull — Tue, 30 Jan 2018 11:40:06 +0000

A report from critics of Airbnb says the vacation rental website is driving up rental prices and reducing housing availability in New York City. The analysis published Monday comes from a researcher at �㽶��Ƶ in Montreal and was commissioned by the Hotel Trades Council, a union of hotel workers...

More at: New York Times

Published: 30 January 2018

Airbnb’s impact on Canadian housing markets

webfull — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 19:00:23 +0000

Published: 10 August 2017

Large commercial operators a growing concern in the Airbnb market, study says

webfull — Tue, 08 Aug 2017 14:55:59 +0000

And contrary to the Airbnb narrative that the online booking service is about regular people sharing their homes to help pay the mortgage, there has been disproportionately large growth of full-time, entire-home listings that belong to hosts with multiple Airbnb properties, according to a copy of a draft report prepared by the �㽶��Ƶ School of Urban Planning.

Read more: The Toronto Star

Published: 8 August 2017