Housing Issues
August 26, 2019
Airbnb has caused plenty of controversy since it first arrived in Toronto.
Housing Issues
September 24, 2018
A Toronto landlord who discovered her condo unit was being rented out repeatedly on Airbnb — behind her back by someone tied to a property management company — has won her case at the Landlord and Tenant Board…
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March 22, 2017
Airbnb listings, especially “commercial listings” by hosts who own multiple properties, mean fewer homes people can live in for the long term. That can cause city-wide ripple-effects on rent increases, according to a new study from the DC Working Families Party…
Housing Issues
March 22, 2017
Property owners are under investigation over whether hundreds of flats and houses in central London are being illegally let out amid the Airbnb revolution, Parliament was being told today…
Housing Issues
March 16, 2017
New apartments are being bought in Sydney purely for letting via online holiday rental agencies such as Airbnb, rather than as residential homes, a NSW Liberal MP has claimed…
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March 10, 2017
Blow up your idea of what Airbnb is. That’s the message Fairbnb, which represents everyone from housing advocates to condo owners to hospitality workers, is sending to city councillors and everyone else in the city…
Housing Issues
January 31, 2017
Airbnb’s popularity is exploding in Australia, and Sydney is its boomtown, but real estate agents say our love affair with the online homestay network is driving up rents…
Housing Issues
January 12, 2017
The Portland City Council’s Housing Committee came one step closer Wednesday to recommending regulations on short-term rentals like Airbnb, including a prohibition against rentals in non-owner occupied single-family homes…
Housing Issues
January 11, 2017
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) – A half-dozen former tenants of a Hollywood neighborhood are suing Airbnb, alleging the online lodging service aided their landlords in ending their tenancies, then re-renting their residences in violation of a municipal ordinance…
Housing Issues
January 11, 2017
In and around Lake Tahoe, housing costs are going through the roof. Of course, that’s the case for all of California — but what makes the situation in Tahoe unique is that the people driving up the cost of local housing don’t actually live there…