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Re:Airbnb likely removed 31,000 homes from Canada’s rental m... by ng12 on Thursday June 20, 2019 @01:07PM (#20234904)
Ok, so admit 31,000 fewer immigrants and the AirBnB problem would go away, right?

Rallying against AirBnB is so silly -- no matter how you slice it it's always a minor factor in self-inflicted "housing crisis" scenarios.

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Re:Airbnb likely removed 31,000 homes from Canada’s rental m... by Tiktaalik on Thursday June 20, 2019 @01:21PM (#20235044)
Airbnb distorts the value of the land, which has broader implications than just the literal 31k units that these researchers identified.
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Re:Airbnb likely removed 31,000 homes from Canada’s rental m... by ng12 on Thursday June 20, 2019 @01:24PM (#20235071)
By how much? More importantly, how much compared to the distortion caused by Canada's zoning/housing policies?
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