Nearly half of the 22,405 short-term rental listings reviewed by the B.C. Ministry of Housing were found to be operating illegally, according to a preliminary analysis of newly released data from short-term rental platforms that the province says it will use to step up enforcement of new restrictions.

Long’s lengthy battle with his former landlord — a self-described community advocate who has positioned himself as an anti-homelessness leader — has been an uneven fight, one similar to that faced by many Ontario tenants. A series of hurdles can make it nearly impossible for tenants to get anything resembling justice, and even three years after Long’s victory he’s still waiting for the money he’s owed.

The City of Toronto is increasing registration fees and bolstering the vetting of short-term rental hosts in an effort to make it harder to evade the rules.

As Toronto tries to clamp down on short-term rentals to maximize housing supply in the midst of a housing crisis, a cottage industry of short-term rental hosting companies continue to help investment property owners evade the city’s rules, a Star investigation has found.

TORONTO, Nov. 21, 2023 /CNW/ – Today, the federal government released a suite of long-awaited measures designed to crack down on the proliferation of illegal commercial short-term rentals across Canada, including a significant Enforcement Fund to help municipalities put boots on the ground, and taxation measures to prevent people from deducting expenses on commercial short-term […]

Airbnb has long had a housing-devouring reputation. Reports about how Airbnb has turned housing units planned, approved, and built as residential into quasi-hotel inventory—so-called ghost hotels—have been abundant across Canada. Every tenant knows that finding a decent place to live is not only extremely difficult, but that once attained, it is also horrendously expensive. Seeing […]

The number of options for Airbnb users looking for a weekend jaunt in New York City has dwindled by 15,000 listings.

For years, Quebec has had what many experts viewed as one of the strongest laws in Canada to regulate Airbnb and other short-term rental platforms. Airbnb hosts had to register with the provincial government, or they could face fines. But it was also clear the law wasn’t actually working, with the vast majority of Montreal’s […]

For a Switzerland professor contracted to work in Ontario for a year, Airbnb looked like the right option for a family of five. Tianning Ning’s husband was hired as a visiting professor at York University, and she said it took a while to find the right place to stay – especially since they hadn’t built […]