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by ng12 2559 days ago
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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Airbnb distorts the value of the land, which has broader implications than just the literal 31k units that these researchers identified.
By how much? More importantly, how much compared to the distortion caused by Canada's zoning/housing policies?