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I cannot say I am a huge fan of it myself... perhaps there are some gaps it fills.
My partner moved out of a flat block with holiday lettings in it, well before airBnB (the noise was a problem, weekend party goers) and you can already let out "houses of multiple occupancy" and a thing like "hotels" exist too. Maybe I am missing something, but I just don't see the need atm.
Sucks for people that genuinely are out of the house a few weeks / have a temp spare room/the house we let in France which is in the middle of nowhere and definitely not causing housing pressure there/ but the abusers ruin it for everyone.
In the case of local lels: Somebody with an AirBnB in a poor area with not enough social housing gave it up for NHS staff. One of my FB acquitances said "nice, but you know, if you release that afterwards for a decent rent, that's even better"
JWestland-
Funny story, our (turns out to be a complete cunt of a) downstairs neighbour let his flat out to one of these 'agencies' mentioned in the article.
Results in stream of Chinese tourists in out of our local authority block towards the back end of last year (amongst other shitiness, the fucking hours I wasted getting this sorted out)
The communal area gets cleaned every week or so. It's mostly concrete with painted and bare metal. The communal door handle is stainless.
Now, mid December I got really sick with this thing that had me stuck in bed for three days that started with a dry shitty cough that just wouldn't leave. I have pre-existing so I'm already shot for the popular flu strains.
Coincidence? Yeah probably, but makes you think. How do you do contact tracing or spread analytics when we are inserting random tourists that cannot be traced in to densely populated residential buildings.
Howard
AirBNB needs to die. We can bury it next to Twitter. Hopefully.