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Would you call a limit of, say, 5 days out of every 30 an "arbitrary" limit? That's what we're dealing with, here: limiting frequency or duration. Many people

Would you call a limit of, say, 5 days out of every 30 an "arbitrary" limit? That's what we're dealing with, here: limiting frequency or duration. Many people simply don't want a constant stream of strangers coming through their living environment. That's not arbitrary, even if you happen to feel comfortable with it yourself.

josho 10y ago
> limiting frequency or duration. Yes, that still seems arbitrary. The abuse seems to be related to people committing crimes or breaking noise bylaws, not how long they stay. So, legislation for the length of stay strikes me as addressing the wrong problem. Really the solution to the problem is to ask the data questions. Do airbnb rentals have more noise complaints/crime, than similar non-airbnb residences. If the data suggests airbnb promotes bad things then ok, maybe that frequency limit isn't so arbitrary. I wonder by what means could a city demand airbnb's data to discovery which residences are being used for short term rentals.