Airbnbs vandalized in Hochelaga-Maisonneuve
Thirty Airbnb rentals in Hochelaga-Maisonneuve have been vandalized with glue in their locks.
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Ian 19:35 on 2024-07-31 Permalink
That’s a great start.
dhomas 08:42 on 2024-08-01 Permalink
“Les militants affirment qu’« aucun Airbnb strictement légal » n’a été visé, sans toutefois préciser comment cette analyse a été effectuée.”
It’s pretty simple how they figured it out: Airbnb is not allowed at all in MHM. Source: https://montreal.ca/en/how-to/areas-where-operating-tourist-home-authorized?arrondissement=MHM
How they are even allowed to operate there without the authorities shutting them down is the real question here.
Kate 10:17 on 2024-08-01 Permalink
The authorities have never acted. Either they don’t have enough manpower, or there isn’t the organizational will.
When those in charge admire anything that “disrupts” and makes money, they’ll never be keen to act (see Airbnb, Uber, etc.)
dhomas 12:48 on 2024-08-01 Permalink
I realize that. I meant that the journalists should be trying to figure out why Airbnb is even there instead of asking how the militants determined that none of the Airbnb were illegal. The answer to the question the journalists posed is evident.
jeather 13:15 on 2024-08-01 Permalink
Just saw this on the CBC: Revenu Québec confirmed that, to date, no fines have been imposed on Airbnb — even since the implementation of the Tourist Accommodation Act in September 2022.
Kate 13:18 on 2024-08-01 Permalink
I agree. But imagine you’re a journalist, who do you ask? The local councillors, even city hall, probably have no resources to hire inspectors. Ephraim would say this is a Revenu Quebec issue as well, but have they got off their butts even since those people died in the Airbnb in Old Montreal last year? Those activists in MHM are the only ones actually acting on the law!
Kate 13:19 on 2024-08-01 Permalink
jeather, that’s a very timely link! Thank you!
Ian 19:13 on 2024-08-01 Permalink
We were always told at the city level (it was Richard Ryan from PM who had that dossier) that nothing could be done but they were working on it then nohting could be done as it was an RQ dossier … then nothing is being done by the RQ.
The fix is in. Glue away, folks.
Uatu 10:24 on 2024-08-02 Permalink
Just say that the entire bldng has been rented out to Muslims with women walking around all covered up and talking foreigner talk and then sit back and watch the crackdown begin lol
Ian 14:25 on 2024-08-02 Permalink
Just for kicks I checked AirBnB for Mile End – you’re not supposed to be able to see the exact address but if there are window views it is easy to tell exactly where the building is. There are literally dozens on residential streets, some rented out by people that manage multiple properties. It’s pathetically easy to see exactlywhere these places are and nobody at any level of governemnt is willing to do a damn thing about it, in th emidst of a housing crisis. Somebody MUST be geting paid off. There’s no other explanation, the violations are too blatant and go completely unpunished. Even the guy who owns St Viateur bagel is known to be a multiple AirBnB lister.
Kate 15:42 on 2024-08-02 Permalink
It’s hard to believe that the authorities couldn’t have someone on staff to check the Airbnb website periodically and list the illegal rentals they spot, and then shut them down. But they don’t do it.
Ian 17:04 on 2024-08-02 Permalink
All I know is there are quite a few tax-dodging assholes getting rich off AirBnB over the last decade (well almost, they started Oct 1 2015) while the rest of us are seeing rents double, and somehow literally nobody at any level of government is doing anything about it at all except passing regulations that nobody enforces.