Sean Grisdale

I am a PhD Candidate in Geography and Planning at the University of Toronto. I have published research on the impacts of short‐term rentals (Airbnb), of housing financialization and of the condo boom on Toronto’s housing market and social ecology.

Publications 

Grisdale, S. and Walks, A. (2022). Rise overrun: Condoization, gentrification and the changing political economy of renting in Toronto. Urban Planning, 7(4). https://doi.org/10.17645/up.v7i4.5742

Grisdale, S. (2022). The role of public land in affordable housing. In Affordable Housing Challenge Project (Eds). Advancing the right to housing in Toronto: Critical perspectives on the GTA's housing crisis and how to solve it. [Report]. Toronto: University of Toronto. https://affordablehousingchallenge.ca/projects/

Grisdale, S. (2021). Displacement by disruption: Short-term rentals and the political economy of “belonging anywhere” in Toronto. Urban Geography. 42(5), 654-680. https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2019.1642714

Grisdale, S. (2021). Mobilizing the platform economy: Regulating short-term rentals in Toronto. In A. Zwick & Z. Spicer (Eds.), The Platform Economy and the Smart City (pp. 15-44). McGill-Queen's University Press.

Hawes, E. and Grisdale, S. (2020). Housing crisis in a Canadian global city: Financialization, buy-to-let investors and short-term rentals in Toronto’s rental market. In S. Bunce, N. Livingstone, L. March, S. Moore, & A. Walks. (Eds.), Critical dialogues of urban governance, development and activism: London & Toronto. UCL Press. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv13xps83.19