January 9, 2017
When French authorities published new population figures for Paris last week, showing a drop of nearly 14,000 residents, politicians and bureaucrats were quick to identify the cause. It wasn’t the threat of terrorism. It wasn’t high rents or taxes. It was Airbnb. Despite a ferocious effort by the current and previous administration at city hall to draw families back to the urban core, most central Parisian neighbourhoods lost residents between 2009 and 2014, a period that preceded the wave of terror that hit the city beginning in 2015…
Source: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/home-sharing-there-goes-the-neighbourhood/article33532329/
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