Mr. Wachsmuth is the Canada Research Chair in Urban Governance at McGill University. He has published several detailed studies on the impact of short-term lets on local housing markets including “Airbnb and the Rent Gap: Gentrification through the sharing economy” and “Short Term Cities: AirBnB’s impact on the housing market” He currently leads the UpGo Labs, which is completely a major study on the regulation of the short-term rental industry.

You can learn more about his work here.