It's about individuals owning multiple properties, and making it difficult for Islanders to get into the real estate market and to afford rents here.

He told CBC News his motion in the legislature this week 'is about hoarding real estate, it's about REITs, large corporations. 'Hoarding real estate'īevan-Baker said that his ownership of a second property intended for retirement, which he eventually sold, is not the kind of transaction that's making the housing crisis worse on the Island. The Green Party official insisted the property was listed on Airbnb only in 2017, however. (Lionel Bonaventure/AFP/Getty Images)īut when CBC News showed the official an ad for the property dated 2017, he corrected his information and said the property was listed for one week in 2017.Ī copy of a Tourism Standards Report viewed by CBC showed Bevan-Baker's property was inspected again in 2018. Green party officials confirmed Bevan-Baker's property in Pinette was once listed on Airbnb. The official said it was listed for one week back in 2014, before Bevan-Baker was first elected as the MLA for Kellys Cross–Cumberland. Listed on AirbnbĪ Green party official confirmed that the Pinette property was at one point listed on Airbnb as available for rent, but exactly when and for how long is still unclear. Bevan-Baker said Wednesday that his re-election in 2019 had caused too much of a delay in his plans to let him still hope to retire to the site. The property was sold about a year ago to a couple from Ontario. 'And at some point when I am past all of this crazy life, we'll hopefully end up there.' 'We have a piece of beautiful land down there,' the former dental surgeon told CBC's Mitch Cormier in 2019. In an interview with CBC News, he confirmed he had owned and then sold a second property in Pinette, on the southeastern shore of the Island.

Myers apologized to the Speaker but not to Bevan-Baker, adding that he had known the words 'were unparliamentary' when he uttered them.īevan-Baker lives in Hampton and represents the district of New Haven-Rocky Point. Environment, Energy and Climate Action Minister Steven Myers said in the legislature Tuesday that Bevan-Baker owned a second house that sat vacant for a while, rather than being rented out to somebody in need of housing.

Cross Winds by Steven Myers