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I always use airbnb when I travel. It's great, and I'll fight anyone who disagrees. Vancouver has been Swiss cheese with vacant units for ten years, airbnb didn't invent that situation, inflationary property values did. If people can monetize their idle investment while they sit on it, and people can actually use the spaces--even if only temporarily--and coal harbor become less of a ghost town, that's a win all around.

The last airbnb I stayed in was a room in a 2br condo in Toronto. The couple who owned it were able to afford more condo than they otherwise might have because they could airbnb their extra room until they achieved it. And since nobody makes rentals anymore, as someone123 pointed out, more young people are forced into buying and being stuck with their investment past it being useful to them. Or struggling to afford a bigger place earlier.