> hear this a lot, but fail to see any hard evidence that killing short-term rentals would fix this problem. Well the city of Halifax just banned airbnb in so

> hear this a lot, but fail to see any hard evidence that killing short-term rentals would fix this problem. Well the city of Halifax just banned airbnb in some areas and there was a flood of houses both on the market to sell and for long term renting. Clearly AirBnb is taking some long term rental stock away from the market, that can't be up for debate. if your point is that banning airbnb won't fully fix housing and therfor we shouldn't ban it, well that's an awfully high bar. What is clear is that banning airbnb will help improve the long term rental market.