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Consultation has concluded
As part of our ongoing efforts to understand the impact of our short-term rental regulations, our volunteer community working group helps provide ongoing insights on community impacts from short-term rentals.
It is a platform to foster mutual understanding and dialogue between different community perspectives on short-term rentals. Input received will help evolve our short-term rental regulations.
Interested in receiving the latest news on the Community Working Group and our short-term rental regulations? Sign up to receive updates.
As part of our ongoing efforts to understand the impact of our short-term rental regulations, our volunteer community working group helps provide ongoing insights on community impacts from short-term rentals.
It is a platform to foster mutual understanding and dialogue between different community perspectives on short-term rentals. Input received will help evolve our short-term rental regulations.
Interested in receiving the latest news on the Community Working Group and our short-term rental regulations? Sign up to receive updates.
Short-term rental regulations were enacted by Council on April 18, 2018 and enforcement took full effect on September 1, 2018.
A person many only obtain one short-term rental business licence for the residence in which they reside.
Businesses and commercial operators are ineligible to apply for a short-term rental licence.
We enforce against operators who are not in compliance with regulations.
Business licenses are suspended as a result of operators not meeting principal residence requirements, failing to have strata or landlord permission to operate, operating illegal, unsafe or nuisance dwellings or failing to provide the requested documentation.
in 2019, nearly 73 per cent of short-term rental operators in Vancouver obtained a business licence – one of the highest compliance rates in North America