Globe and Mail,  August 4, 2024 Statistics Canada’s report last week, “Short-term Rentals in the Canadian Housing Market,” reveals that by 2023, 107,266 housing units had been converted to commercial short-term rental (STR), rendering them unavailable for long-term occupancy. Comparing this number to Canada’s current total housing stock of 15,495,361 units, Statscan suggests that a seemingly […]

London Free Press, August 29, 2024 The couple couldn’t understand why their Airbnb host was so adamant he get back the “very important” cellphone charging cube they had mistakenly taken from a London home. After a series of calls and text messages over four days that began 20 minutes after they checked out and became ever […]

Planetizen, August 26, 2024 A San Francisco Superior Court judge has overruled Airbnb’s request to dismiss a case brought against it by the parents of a teen who died in August 2021 after being shot at a party held in a Sunnyvale, California, home rented on Airbnb. According to an article from ACCESSWIRE, the case […]