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Nearly 1.5 million people in B.C. live in strata housing, where the governing corporation is made up of the owners in the housing complex. “Short-term rentals are a huge concern to strata corporations,” says Sandy Wagner, president of the board of directors of the Vancouver Island Strata...
Coun. Doug Patan said the regulations need to be drafted so they do not create an underground economy of short-term rental units. “If we try to over-regulate, we’re going to push people away,” he said. A resolution was proposed to draft a regulatory bylaw for short-term rentals, ...
Taking a longer-term perspective, we can look at the increase in the Canadian housing stock relative to the increase in population to get a sense of how effective we have been in creating new units. The ratio of new home completions relative to the ...
JEFFREY MIZE, Columbian staff writer