It's a shame articles like these don't include comments from those who have been priced out of renting/buying in part because of the new breed of buyers who are

It's a shame articles like these don't include comments from those who have been priced out of renting/buying in part because of the new breed of buyers who are looking for short term rental investment properties (some "hosts" have dozens or even hundreds of units). To have this be the only comment (below) that vaguely touches on the context is either lazy or deliberately biased, given all of the airtime given to Airbnb talking points. I suspect this reasonable regulation is quite popular with the majority of NYC residents. >“In New York City, residential apartments should be for residential use,” said Murray Cox of Inside Airbnb, a housing advocacy group that collects data about the company’s presence in cities around the world.