The sound of people vomiting at 3 a.m., neighbours who open their windows to scream 鈥淚 love you, Montreal!鈥� at all hours of the night and a frat house atmosphere taking over the building. This is how Manon Wascher describes the 鈥淎irbnb nightmare鈥� 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鈥檚 230 units being rented on the popular travel website.
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Published on: 11 Feb 2020
The American online marketplace Airbnb has likely removed approximately 31,100 units from Canada鈥檚 long-term rental markets. This could make it difficult for Canadian cities and provinces to prevent growing housing affordability issues.
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Published on: 20 Jun 2019
A from McGill Urban Planning professor David Wachsmuth听and his team听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听some of the findings:
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Published on: 30 Jan 2018
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 香蕉视频 in Montreal and was commissioned by the Hotel Trades Council, a union of hotel workers...
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Published on: 30 Jan 2018
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Published on: 10 Aug 2017
And contrary to the Airbnb narrative that the online booking service is about听regular people听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 香蕉视频 School of Urban Planning.
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Published on: 8 Aug 2017
