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Canada's short-term rental bans and rents: what returned to the long-term market, and what actually moved pricesCanadian cities restricted short-term rentals to bring homes back to renters. Few came back, rents fell for other reasons, and the bans squeezed a new kind of housing that sits between a hotel and a lease.ArticleHousing10 Oct

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In other words: in the cities the bans were designed to fix, the STR stock is too small a fraction of housing to mechanically explain or reverse the rent crisis.Did Banning Airbnb Actually Fix Canadian Housing? An Evidence-Based Audit of the STR Restriction ExperimentThe official narrative versus the data: did Canadian STR restrictions actually lower rents?HousingAirDNA's chief economist Jamie Lane documented that a large share of former STR hosts simply pivoted to 30+ day "medium-term" rentals that fall outside the STR rules, while others kept the unit vacant for personal use, sold, or warehoused it.Did Banning Airbnb Actually Fix Canadian Housing? An Evidence-Based Audit of the STR Restriction ExperimentThe actual scale of STR-to-LTR conversionHousing…atforms expand the total housing/lodging market by serving demand that wouldn't otherwise enter the LTR market; a Conference Board of Canada study (2023) found "no compelling evidence" that Airbnb activity meaningfully affected rents across 19 Canadian cities; and a 2024 paper by McGill's David Wachsmuth and Bridget Bu…Hamilton's Short-Term Rental Crackdown and the "Demand-Side Disruption" QuestionExecutive summaryHousingOther requirements. $1–2 million liability insurance; criminal record check (≤60 days old); written landlord/condo-board permission; site/floor plans; emergency contact on listings; max 2 guests per sleeping room.Hamilton's Short-Term Rental Crackdown and the "Demand-Side Disruption" QuestionWhat Hamilton actually didHousingAirbnb creates a market expansion effect — i.e., it generates additional demand for residential-style accommodation that would not have otherwise materialized in either the hotel or LTR market.Hamilton's Short-Term Rental Crackdown and the "Demand-Side Disruption" Question3a. Direct academic support: the "market expansion effect"Housing