Airbnb condemned in Plateau, Ville-Marie
Tenant groups are condemning Airbnb and begging government to act against a trend that’s said to be destroying the urban fabric in the Plateau and Ville-Marie.
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Chris 10:28 on 2019-03-08 Permalink
Not gonna happen.
Ephraim 11:15 on 2019-03-08 Permalink
All I gotta say is… Martin Niemöller.
Ian 12:53 on 2019-03-08 Permalink
Between the Multimedia Tax Credit, Shiller-Lavy and AirBnB Mile End is pretty much past recovery. There’s a Lululemon across the street from Saint-Viateur bagel, which has a David’s Tea next door. Businesses on both sides of S.W. Welch are closed, as the rents keep going up. Almost every new business is a lunch counter catering to Ubisoft and the tourists. If RQ had done something 5 years ago it might have helped. If PM had done something around then about all the lunch counters saturating the neighbourhood, squeezing out businesses that might have served locals at one time it might have helped. Now it’s too late. It’s just another soulless middle class neighbourhood full of chain stores and sushi shops with only a handful of original businesses, just enough to maintain quaint touristic value for the walking tours on the way to Kem Coba for an artisanal sorbet. PM knows that gentrification is also driven by commercial rent increases but capping taxes to keep that in check would cut into their bottom line so there’s no way that’s going to happen. I don’t think Mile-End will ever recover its former charm unless there is some kind of economic collapse that makes all the chain stores and lunch counters close down. with nobody wanting AirBnBs in the area anymore because it’s not touristic enough.
TL;DR: We have known this was happening for years, to make a fuss about the “tissu urbain” now is pretty much closing the barn door once the horses have run away.
walkerp 13:23 on 2019-03-08 Permalink
Not to mention the suppression of softball in the North field of Jeanne-Mance park to get rid of unclean ethnics in visibly public spaces,
Ian 17:55 on 2019-03-08 Permalink
Well you know blokes that like hotdogs aren’t core constituency like random tourists who don’t know enough to keep their eyes open near a ball field.