/channels/news_feeds/all/term/Airbnb/rss en /channels/channels/news/expert-montreal-residents-decry-airbnb-rentals-320338 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>The sound of people vomiting at 3 a.m., neighbours who open their windows to scream “I love you, Montreal!” at all hours of the night and a frat house atmosphere taking over the building. This is how Manon Wascher describes the “Airbnb nightmare” she has gone through since the apartment complex she lives in on Guy St. was sold four years ago. Wascher says there are between 30 and 50 of the building’s 230 units being rented on the popular travel website.</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">11 </span><span class="month">February </span><span class="year">2020</span></div></div></div></div></div> Tue, 11 Feb 2020 17:44:49 +0000 webfull 158641 at /channels /channels/channels/news/airbnb-removing-rental-housing-canadian-cities-and-rural-areas-297920 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>The American online marketplace Airbnb has likely removed approximately 31,100 units from Canada’s long-term rental markets. This could make it difficult for Canadian cities and provinces to prevent growing housing affordability issues.</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-primary-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="no-float" src="/channels/files/channels/styles/wysiwyg_medium/public/channels/image/img_0846.jpg?itok=Ph9QbalY" width="160" height="120" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">20 </span><span class="month">June </span><span class="year">2019</span></div></div></div></div></div> Thu, 20 Jun 2019 11:06:39 +0000 webfull 150077 at /channels /channels/channels/news/high-cost-short-term-rentals-new-york-city-284310 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div>A <a href="//mcgill.ca/newsroom/files/newsroom/channels/attach/airbnb-report.pdf">new report</a> from ±«ÓăÖ±˛Ą Urban Planning professor <a href="/urbanplanning/people-0/wachsmuth">David Wachsmuth</a> and his team provides an analysis of Airbnb activity in New York City and the surrounding region in the last three years (September 2014 - August 2017). Relying on new methodologies to analyze big data, here are <span>some of the findings:</span></div> <div> </div> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-primary-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="no-float" src="/channels/files/channels/styles/wysiwyg_medium/public/channels/image/airbnb_cover.jpg?itok=dQOeg-Yh" width="160" height="212" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">30 </span><span class="month">January </span><span class="year">2018</span></div></div></div></div></div> Tue, 30 Jan 2018 15:15:15 +0000 webfull 134584 at /channels /channels/channels/news/nyt-report-slams-airbnb-nyc-raising-cost-housing-284303 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>A report from critics of Airbnb says the vacation rental website is driving up rental prices and reducing housing availability in New York City. The analysis published Monday comes from a researcher at ±«ÓăÖ±˛Ą in Montreal and was commissioned by the Hotel Trades Council, a union of hotel workers...</p> <p>More at: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2018/01/30/us/ap-us-airbnb.html">New York Times</a></p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-primary-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="no-float" src="/channels/files/channels/styles/wysiwyg_medium/public/channels/image/screen_shot_2018-01-30_at_6.38.39_am.png?itok=726LA_HC" width="160" height="25" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">30 </span><span class="month">January </span><span class="year">2018</span></div></div></div></div></div> Tue, 30 Jan 2018 11:40:06 +0000 webfull 134577 at /channels /channels/channels/news/airbnbs-impact-canadian-housing-markets-269333 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">10 </span><span class="month">August </span><span class="year">2017</span></div></div></div></div></div> Thu, 10 Aug 2017 19:00:23 +0000 webfull 129761 at /channels /channels/channels/news/large-commercial-operators-growing-concern-airbnb-market-study-says-269289 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>And contrary to the Airbnb narrative that the online booking service is about regular people sharing their homes to help pay the mortgage, there has been disproportionately large growth of full-time, entire-home listings that belong to hosts with multiple Airbnb properties, according to a copy of a draft report prepared by the ±«ÓăÖ±˛Ą School of Urban Planning.<br /><br /> Read more: <a href="https://www.thestar.com/news/city_hall/2017/08/04/large-commercial-operators-a-growing-concern-in-the-airbnb-market-study-says.html"><em>The Toronto Star</em></a></p> <p><br /></p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">8 </span><span class="month">August </span><span class="year">2017</span></div></div></div></div></div> Tue, 08 Aug 2017 14:55:59 +0000 webfull 129567 at /channels