With high living costs and rising rents, governments are going after Airbnb and Vrbo. British Columbia is the latest, along with New York and Quebec.

How much are short-term rentals to blame? Will this action be enough?

David Wachsmuth, a researcher and professor at the School of Urban Planning at McGill University, joins us.

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