MONTREAL – Montreal has handed tighter restrictions for short-term leases on platforms like Airbnb in a bid to ease the town’s housing disaster.
Metropolis council adopted a brand new bylaw as we speak to permit folks to lease their properties for brief stays solely between June 10 and Sept. 10.
The brand new guidelines come two years after seven folks died in a fire in an Old Montreal building that had listed unlawful short-term leases on Airbnb.
Quebec has taken steps to curb unlawful leases since then, however the metropolis stated in January that regardless of these efforts, greater than half of the 4,000 models on short-term rental platforms had been listed illegally.
The brand new bylaw permits inspectors to concern fines of $1,000 a day for listings that pop up outdoors the summer time season, and $2,000 a day for repeat offenders.
Airbnb has criticized the bylaw, saying that it’s going to hurt Montreal’s tourism business and that the platform has a negligible impression on housing availability.
Characteristic picture: The search continues Monday, March 27, 2023 on the scene of a fireplace in a heritage constructing in Previous Montreal. Police say two extra our bodies have been pulled from the rubble of a constructing that caught hearth March 16 in Previous Montreal, bringing the demise toll to seven. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz
