I can't speak to the nature of the Canadian market, but in the bay area where people also say banning AirBnB will help I always like to remind people that there

I can't speak to the nature of the Canadian market, but in the bay area where people also say banning AirBnB will help I always like to remind people that there are approximately 7,000 AirBnb units in SF[1], and there is was an estimated housing shortage of 300,000 units in 2016[2]. Even if you outlawed all AirBnb listings, it would not change rent prices at all, its a rounding error on the shortage of available housing. 1. http://insideairbnb.com/san-francisco/ http://insideairbnb.com/san-francisco/ 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_housing_shortage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_housing_shortage