Platforms like Airbnb are receiving renewed scrutiny amid a return to summer travel and an uptick in demand for short-term rentals, because of their role in making housing less affordable for some Canadians. Anne Gaviola has more on the impact of short-term rentals and the push for regulation

  • maporita@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    AorBnN makes more sense for a group of people traveling together. A couple of families or a single large family with lots of kids. In a hotel you each have to go to your own room whereas in a house you still get your own room but now you have common areas you can socialize in.

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      1 year ago

      Pretty much this.

      We have young kids that go to bed around 8. If we want to stay up, then we’d need another hotel room, turning $150 a night into $300 a night. On top of that, hotel rooms don’t really have kitchens, so we’d have to eat out every meal. Airbnb ends up being cheaper and more convenient, even if the places are in the middle of nowhere.

      Airbnb is shitty, but it fills a niche hotels have ignored.