Jonah Prousky is a management consultant and freelance writer who focuses on business, technology and society. New York instituted a de facto ban last year on short-term rentals listed on platforms ...

Just this past year, Canadian news was constantly covering stories of vacation rentals, made possible by platforms such as Airbnb, taking the housing supply hostage. When Airbnb first launched its ...

Airbnb, the popular San Francisco-based peer-to-peer marketplace for spaces, has named Aaron Zifkin as its new country manager for Canada. The Torontonian most recently as Senior Vice President of ...

OTTAWA (Reuters) -Canada will take steps in the coming weeks to ease a rental-unit shortage exacerbated by Airbnb and other short-term rental platforms, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland said on ...

Airbnb announced Tuesday that it will use new technology to deter customers in the U.S. and Canada from using the rental service to throw parties. Short-term rental services like Airbnb and Vrbo have ...

Local politicians are calling on Airbnb to work to reduce housing affordability concerns after a study’s findings that the short-term rental company has likely removed 31,000 homes from Canada’s ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Airbnb says it will make more information about long-term renters available to hosts after the owner of a vacation home says she had to start eviction proceedings against a renter who ...

MONTREAL — New research suggests a small number of large commercial property owners are the most successful on Airbnb and are eating up the local supply of housing in Canada’s three largest cities in ...