Dear Editor,
Re: “Short-term rental ban moves forward in Richmond,” News, Feb. 7.
Banning short-term rentals sounds like a group of rich persons discussing how to control the income for the low-income families in Richmond.
And this makes Richmond a great city in Canada?
People have listed all the reasons for the ban and have talked about how short-term rentals negatively impact neighbours, but they don’t consider the low-income people who want get a little money to help them pay their daily expenses.
Life is tough when you don’t have a job, or a good job. Some people would like to rent out a room in their home to help pay the expenses.
With the Internet, this can be done more easily, but now the higher-ups plan to stop this and punish them.
Does that make a fair society? It’s fine for the city to control the rich who have huge houses to rent, but why not give a path of survival for the lower-income people?
Frank Wang
Richmond
