A little more than two weeks have passed since the B.C. government rolled out proposed legislation to crack down on short-term rentals in B.C. in an effort to correct the ongoing housing crisis.Three and a half years ago Steve Gordon and his wife, Sharon, retired. The couple sold their home in Esquimalt and bought two condos – one in Squamish and a small unit in the Janion building in downtown Victoria.They call themselves collateral damage of the province's crackdown on short-term rentals.
Rentals.ca has crunched it’s October numbers and in B.C., rental units listed on its platform are up 21 per cent. It is unclear how many of those units were short-term rental converts. “It’s not the low-income units that we really need,” said King. “I think you’re going to see some of these short-term rental operators moving into the long0term market and having to adjust and realize that they’re not going to make as much with long0term rentals.”
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