I applaud this decision by Jersey City and yet I’m about to stay in an Airbnb for 4 months beginning in January. Why? Because there’s not much other choice. Peo

I applaud this decision by Jersey City and yet I’m about to stay in an Airbnb for 4 months beginning in January. Why? Because there’s not much other choice. People who used to offer rooms for short to medium terms to students, interns, and other non-rich business travellers have switched over to Airbnb and found they can make way more money doing it. The only places I see that are not in Airbnb are clear scams (photos literally stolen from some developer showroom site, refusing to let you see the place without a deposit) or they’re slums that target only the most desperate renters. So I wouldn’t describe them as “happy to use Airbnb.” Airbnb is pretty bad. It’s just less bad than everything else.