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Theres a new squad cracking down on illegal Airbnbs in Montreal, four months after a deadly fire stirred nationwide discussion about short-term rentals and their lack of oversight. The four-person squad will target the Plateau-Mont-Royal, Ville-Marie and Sud-Ouest boroughs, where most short-term rental listings are located, despite being illegal in many neighbourhoods.

After leaving it vacant for a decade, the City of Montreal is selling the 1910 building. The buyer would have to shoulder the costs to repair and preserve its historic nature.

The building, newly acquired by the city, is a seven-unit rooming house on Centre Street in Pointe-Saint-Charles where vulnerable tenants are paying low rents.

The building, newly acquired by the city, is a seven-unit rooming house on Centre Street in Pointe-Saint-Charles where vulnerable tenants are paying low rents.

The City of Montreal has been sitting on a vast piece of land for six years that could help with the housing shortage, but private developers have so far expressed little interest.

MONTREAL - Rooming or boarding houses are regaining favour with some Canadian cities as a way to offset a lack of affordable homes, but experts warn there are pitfalls to the once-popular form of urban housing.

“Few dates are more mobilizing than July 1,” say 14 Quebec mayors. “Families on the street, households housed in hotels, explosion of homelessness: the crisis crushes more people each year

Breaking News, Sports, Manitoba, Canada

Breaking News, Sports, Manitoba, Canada

MONTREAL - For six years, the City of Montreal has been sitting on a vast piece of land that could help relieve a housing shortage, but private developers, whom the city needs to realize its vision for an affordable "eco neighbourhood," have so far expressed little interest.