FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Fairbnb.ca: Condo tower’s deal with Airbnb is “rezoning by stealth,” makes tower a hotel now If you want to stop housing residents and start being a hotel, start paying commercial tax rates, coalition says (Toronto) Today, Airbnb now acting like a multinational ghost hotel broker, announced that it had cut a deal with the […]

A coalition of local groups is calling for the City of Vancouver to hold short-term rental sites, such as Airbnb and VRBO, accountable for illegal listings…

It’s currently illegal to rent out your home on sites like Airbnb in Vancouver unless you have a hotel or licensed bed and breakfast. But as anyone who has perused the site knows, thousands of people are skirting the rules. Now, a national organization called Fairbnb, comprised of a coalition of hospitality unions and other […]

The City of Vancouver’s proposed short term rental regulations will fail to get apartments back into the permanent rental pool unless platforms like Airbnb face consequences for allowing illegal listings to proliferate, the coalition Fairbnb is warning…

It’s currently illegal to rent out your home on sites like Airbnb in Vancouver unless you have a hotel or licensed bed and breakfast…

The City of Vancouver is working on regulations aimed at curbing short-term rentals, which have exploded in recent years on platforms like Airbnb and Expedia…

Soon, you may need to register for a licence if you want to rent out your Vancouver home to vacationers via Airbnb. But whose responsibility will it be to make sure you’re not renting out seven different unlicensed apartments for short-term rentals, removing them from the city’s housing stock in violation of the city’s new […]

Make them pay — the websites advertising short-term rentals, that is. That’s the solution that a campaign proposes in order to make the City of Vancouver’s regulations around rental sites like Airbnb and VRBO function properly — and actually help the city make a difference in terms of freeing up rental units..