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Why Do Some Crimes Increase When Airbnbs Come to Town?
- caterama 5y agoThe response from Airbnb seems aggressively dismissive. There may be some truth in their rebuttal, but stepping back and recognizing that they are economically incentivized to disagree, it's tempting to dismiss their objections outright. Their unwillingness to provide better data, or refute with data is also... telling?
- karmakaze 5y ago> Researchers from Northeastern University reviewed data in Boston from 2011 to 2018, a period of both sustained growth in Airbnb listings and growing concerns about crime. They found that certain violent crimes—fights, robberies, reports of someone wielding a knife—tended to increase in a neighborhood a year or more after the number of Airbnbs increased—a sign, the researchers said, of a fraying social order. It didn't say how many neighborhoods were analyzed. It any case it's nothing more than correlation within the data of one city. I have nothing good to say about Airbnb nor this study (as it's being described).