Item - 2025.PH20.9

The Planning and Housing Committee:

1. Received the item for information.

City Council on March 26 and 27, 2025, referred the supplementary report for Item AU8.1 to the April 10, 2025 meeting of the Planning and Housing Committee.

Summary from the report (March 21, 2025) from the Auditor General:

This report provides a response to the Audit Committee's request. Our audit of the City's Short-Term Rental Program and Municipal Accommodation Tax (2024.AU5.7) did not specifically include 181 and 219 Dundas Street. Our online search for illegal short-term rental listings may have included these locations, however it is not possible to link the online listings to specific addresses.

As supplemental information for City Council, we used the data extract from our audit of the short-term rental database and transactions from two licensed companies and found 70 transactions at 181 Dundas St. E. and 52 at 219 Dundas St. E. between 2021 and 2023. As of February 29, 2024, when we extracted the short-term rental registration data for our audit, both locations had one active permit each.

In a subsequent update on March 11, 2025, Municipal Licensing and Standards (MLS) confirmed that all active short-term rental permits at 181 and 219 Dundas Street East had been canceled or revoked following investigations. MLS also engaged with property management at both locations and verified that short-term rentals are prohibited under the respective condominium by-law declarations.