Allowing property owners to use secondary suites as short-term rentals would encourage more landlords to convert their units to Airbnb-style rentals, rather than providing homes to long-term tenants. And that would exacerbate an already tight rental market and high rents, a policy expert with the city has testified at a planning tribunal.

There were broken chairs scattered around the floor. Torn carpets peppered with cigarette butts. Some puddles of vomit.

Toronto’s real estate regulations are the slowly boiling water, and we are the frog.

TORONTO – Housing advocates and property owners squared off Monday at a housing tribunal in Toronto that will determine the rules regarding short-term rentals like Airbnb.

The teal front door of Serena Purdy’s white house leads the eye straight down one of Kensington Market’s quirky little laneways where pots of lavender and herbs adorn her stoop.

Toronto’s short-term rental regulations won’t solve the city’s housing crisis but they will help stabilize the supply of homes and reduce the nuisance issues of noise, garbage and parking afflicting residential neighbourhoods and condos following five years of proliferating Airbnb-type units. That was the testimony of a senior city planner, the opening witness at a […]

A years-long battle over how to regulate short-term rentals in Toronto is continuing this week at the province’s Local Planning Appeal Tribunal (LPAT), with some arguing the city’s proposed rules are a “deflection” from policymakers’ attempts to fix an ongoing affordable housing shortage.

Airbnb has taken dramatic action against one of its biggest hosts in Canada, shutting down his account last week and others linked to it following a CBC investigation that found they were listing the same properties under different names, boosting each others’ ratings and — according to hundreds of reviews — misleading guests about the […]

Officers were called to Burma Drive, in the area of Park Lawn Road and The Queensway, at around 7:10 a.m. by a citizen who made a call about an impaired driver.

A mansion in Toronto’s affluent Bridle Path area is the site of a police investigation after a man was shot during the house’s use as an Airbnb rental.