Featured Story
April 16, 2018
The lobby group that led the charge against Airbnb in Toronto says the short-term rental website should agree to voluntarily implement the city’s proposed new rules, even while they are hung up in legal challenges…
Fairbnb News
April 16, 2018
Hoping new Toronto bylaws would regulate short-term rentals this summer? Don’t hold your breath…
Fairbnb News
January 31, 2018
ALBANY, N.Y. — A report from critics of Airbnb says the vacation rental website is driving up home rental prices and reducing housing availability in New York City….
Featured Story
December 12, 2017
Toronto council has crafted short-term home rental rules that will ban homeowners from offering self-contained “secondary suites” on Airbnb…
Fairbnb News
December 12, 2017
David Clement, North American affairs manager of the Consumer Choice Center and Thorben Wieditz, researcher at Fairbnb, join BNN’s Greg Bonnell for a look at the City of Toronto’s latest moves to tackle the short-term rental market which includes Airbnb properties…
Fairbnb News
December 12, 2017
Toronto City Council has passed new rules to crack down on short-term rental services such as Airbnb that will restrict listings to principal residences and ban homeowners from listing secondary suites such as basement apartments…
Fairbnb News
December 12, 2017
Toronto will require short-term rental operators to register with the city, while blocking secondary suites from being listed on sites like Airbnb. Council voted 40-3 in favour of the full suite of regulations, and 27-17 in favour of blocking secondary suites….
Fairbnb News
December 12, 2017
New regulations that would prohibit Torontonians from listing any properties other than their principal residence on short-term accommodations sites like Airbnb was passed by city council at its final meeting of 2017…
Fairbnb News
December 12, 2017
Dec 7 (Reuters) – The Toronto city council on Thursday approved regulations governing short-term rentals, requiring operators to register with the city and restricting the types of properties that homeowners can rent as it grapples with a growing affordability crisis…