If you don't have rent control or NIMBY blocking construction, you've got a free market and everything will be fine. The legality of Airbnb is completely orthog

If you don't have rent control or NIMBY blocking construction, you've got a free market and everything will be fine. The legality of Airbnb is completely orthogonal to this. I'm not even suggesting that cities should ban or restrict Airbnb, just that doing so can be rational and business owners need to take the risk of this into account. Given the delta in profitability, the market does understand this. I did not claim that Airbnb units aren't fungible with rentals, that's obviously true, and rereading this discussion I don't understand how you believe I made that argument.