[pyaamb]

As bad as they are I'd still want to have them around to keep hotel prices in check

[zouhair]

No, I don't care about hotels or hotel prices. People need places to live. You can deal with Hotel prices a bit high. There are millions of people in rich countries right now having hard time paying rent or finding any.

[satvikpendem]

Zoning laws are a way bigger restriction on housing than anything else, Airbnb is a symptom and arguably a scapegoat compared to the dampening of the demand of building new housing supply.

[lmm]

And those countries have tried literally everything except making it legal to build more housing.

[pyaamb]

FWIW I'm fully behind you on more housing and an especially aggressive tax on entities owning multiple properties as investments.

[darkwizard42]

This is wholesale resolved by building more housing (which Airbnbs or short term rentals do not make a meaningful dent in anyway).

[betaby]

Even in very popular cities AirBnBs are less than 0.1% of the residential dwellings. AirBnBs have negligible effect on a rent.