“…I investigate how these dynamics map onto existing geographies of rental availability and flows of housing revenue, noting the platform tends to disproportionately impact the city's most popular and central neighborhoods. It also contributes to emerging research in gentrification studies demonstrating the capacity for local renters to be displaced by wealthier renters and tourists, as one consequence of privately-owned condominiums replacing purpose-built rental apartments as the dominant form of rental infrastructure in Toronto (August & Walks, 2018). Finally, as housing in Western economies is increasingly produced as a commodity rather than for dwelling, I argue it is important to consider how short-term rentals constitute another important dimension to what critical scholars are calling the "financialization" of rental housing (Aalbers, 2016(Aalbers, , 2017August & Walks, 2018;Fields & Uffer, 2016), with implications for housing policy and municipal regulation moving forward.…”