/newsroom/taxonomy/term/9554/all en /newsroom/david-wachsmuth Wed, 28 Apr 2021 21:14:13 +0000 frederique.mazerolle@mcgill.ca 261969 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/expert-montreal-residents-decry-airbnb-rentals-320338 <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> Tue, 11 Feb 2020 17:44:48 +0000 frederique.mazerolle@mcgill.ca 198441 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/airbnb-removing-rental-housing-canadian-cities-and-rural-areas-297920 <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> Wed, 19 Jun 2019 20:12:25 +0000 vincent.allaire@mcgill.ca 170476 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/high-cost-short-term-rentals-new-york-city-284310 <div>A <a href="/newsroom/files/newsroom/channels/attach/airbnb-report.pdf">new report</a> from ���ϲ����� 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> <ul></ul> Tue, 30 Jan 2018 15:00:46 +0000 laurie.devine@mcgill.ca 32904 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/nyt-report-slams-airbnb-nyc-raising-cost-housing-284303 <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 ���ϲ����� University 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> Tue, 30 Jan 2018 11:40:04 +0000 laurie.devine@mcgill.ca 32903 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/airbnbs-impact-canadian-housing-markets-269333 <p> Thu, 10 Aug 2017 17:51:45 +0000 cynthia.lee@mcgill.ca 32164 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/large-commercial-operators-growing-concern-airbnb-market-study-says-269289 <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 ���ϲ����� University 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> Tue, 08 Aug 2017 14:55:58 +0000 priya.pajel@mail.mcgill.ca 32151 at /newsroom