White Rock Airbnb Listings
Here are the Airbnb listings for White Rock as at 19:00 PDT March 14 2019. [Photo Credit:jurgen.proschinger]
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Nearly 1 in 5 Vancouver Airbnb listings non-compliant
Nearly one in five Airbnb listings are non-compliant, according to a platform scan I completed last night. Out of the 4428 active units my scan picked up, 818 units are non-compliant for one or more of the following reasons: Hosts with multiple entire home/apartment listings 620 Licences used for multiple home/apartment listings 238 Dubious Exemptions […]
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Neither Airbnb nor hosts responsible for injuries to guests – lawsuit
A Vancouver woman who allegedly slipped in the bathtub of a Salt Spring Island Airbnb and fractured her neck is suing the platform and the hosts for negligence1)LEE, Kathleen v AIRBNB INC. VLC-S-S-186478. But the hosts and the company are arguing that they cannot be held liable as per Section 16 of Airbnb Terms, which […]
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Airbnb quietly drops licence requirements for Vancouver listings
The agreement between City of Vancouver and Airbnb requires the platform to make the licence field mandatory for all listings. Airbnb deactivated all unlicensed listings last fall and for a while enforced this rule. But our latest scan of Airbnb data show that Airbnb has quietly dropped this requirement. As a result we have seen […]
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Petition: Conduct public inquiry into fentanyl money laundering in Lower Mainland real estate
To: Hon. David Eby, Q.C., Attorney General of British Columbia Whereas: Police reports have been uncovered that transnational fentanyl traffickers are laundering billions of dollars every year through Lower Mainland real estate market. BC Coroners Service reports that fentanyl-related overdoses have killed 4,000 people last year alone in BC Statistics Canada data show that the […]
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Nathanael Lauster, Nazism, and tobacco tactics in housing crisis denialism
“Hitler introduced tobacco control measures,” the tobacco industry propagandists would say. “Therefore, anyone who advocates for tobacco control measures is a Nazi.” The use reductio ad Hitlerum — a logical fallacy in the form “Hitler did X, therefore anyone who does X is a Nazi”1)http://researchonline.lshtm.ac.uk/1874/1/How%20the%20growth%20of%20denialism%20undermines%20public%20health%20_%20The%20BMJ.pdf — is a common tactic used by the tobacco industry […]
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How the YIMBY movement made neoliberal social cleansing hip again
Go to any public hearing at Vancouver City Council for a market-rate housing project and you’ll see a group of angry millennial men, dorky in appearance, yuppie in dress and frat boy in behaviour. They will come up to speak at the podium one after another in a well-rehearsed ritual. “More,” each will recite. “Build […]
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China meddling in Vancouver election to protect its billion dollar assets in the city
Vancouverites woke up on Saturday to the chilling news that People’s Republic of China was meddling in the city’s municipal election. Vancouver Police Department announced an investigation into a vote buying scheme organized by a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) front group was underway1)https://thebreaker.news/news/wechat-wenzhou/. Canada Wenzhou Friendship, a group with ties to CCP United Front2)https://www.thestar.com/vancouver/2018/10/16/vancouver-society-at-centre-of-vote-buying-allegations-has-ties-to-chinese-government.html, was […]
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How Vancouver condo offshore presales may be used to launder global dirty money
It’s incredibly easy for transnational criminals to use Vancouver condo offshore presales to launder their dirty money. It can be accomplished in just three steps: Step 1: Buy a presale contract at an offshore sale using dirty money in the offshore currency and hold on to it for a couple of years Step 2: Flip […]
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Over 1,000 new Airbnb listings added in Vancouver within a month of new rules coming into effect
More than 1,000 new Airbnb listings have appeared on the platform within a month of new Airbnb rules came into effect in Vancouver. The City of Vancouver claimed that the number of listings on Airbnb had fallen from 6,600 in April to 3,742 on September 1, but the scan of the Airbnb website I ran […]
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