B.C. Greens call for provincial registry of short-term rentals like Airbnbs

The B.C. Green Party is calling on the provincial government to regulate the short-term rental industry, a move it says is necessary to ease the housing crisis and improve safety for renters and hosts.

“We’re in a housing crisis and we need to understand what are the aspects of that housing crisis, how much are short-term rentals contributing to that,” B.C. Green party leader Sonia Furstenau told CBC News Tuesday.

“And in order to have that understanding, we need the data on how many short-term rentals there are in any given community.”

The party is calling on the government to introduce legislation that establishes a provincial registry of short-term rentals and enables data

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