This is how temporary accommodation should work: multi-family houses where extra room or extra unit is rented out. This requires the owner to be onsite and suff

This is how temporary accommodation should work: multi-family houses where extra room or extra unit is rented out. This requires the owner to be onsite and suffer the consequences of bad actors. That’s it. Of course in the US this is impossible because in most places building anything other than single family houses is illegal. Many years ago people would have boarders. London, for example, would have people who stayed during the week. What AirBnB tried to do was create a system to allow Oriole to set up illegal hotels. That’s it. I never saw the attraction in that personally. The negative externalities of AirBnB are massive: safety concerns for residents, disruption for residents, reduction in rental housing supply and reduction in the supply of houses for owner-occupiers. The sooner it dies the better.