Vancouver signs first agreement in Canada with Airbnb for short-term rentals
This seems like reasonable regulation.<p>And all of this demand-side management is going to do nothing for affordability.  Housing affordability is a supply-side zoning issue and can be fixed very quickly:<p>- Unify&#x2F;standardize zoning.  The entire country of Japan only has about a dozen different zoning types.  I see more than a dozen zoning types from my home office window.<p>- Stop going to council for spot upzoning.  This should not be a council function.  This should be handled by city operations.<p>- Upzone Grandview-Woodland and Hastings-Sunrise from RS-1 to RM-4.  RM-4 is how Kitsilano is zoned.  TADA!  You’ve just created 50,000 housing units and solved the whole problem.<p>Zoning visualization:
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