"In Lisbon they banned new AirBnBs in the city center last year and immediately house prices fell by about 10%, whereas in the rest of the city (where AirBnB continued to exist) rent and house prices continued to soar."
"Some Canadian cities require that you live in the property if you want to do short-term rentals. Usually people have a second entrance to what is essentially a full hotel room (personal kitchen, bathroom) in the basement."
"I used to live in a coastal beach town called rockaway beach, Oregon but when I moved away for a couple years and came back there was nothing in the rental market so I had to get a trailer and live in a trailer park in Tillamook, OR. This system of AirBNB has Destroyed Oregon's Rural coastal communities."
"You didn't mention other problems with short-time renting - those who rent often do not respect their neighbours and make a lot of noise and throw garbage everywhere (they do not know or care where to get rid of garbage). Where I live - in the centre of Copenhagen - our building's association just decided to force owners to register when they are renting out their apartment, which ended the pratice, because now they were liable to pay damages. BTW- if they rent out the apartment without notifying they can be thrown out of the apartment."
"It bypasses traditional zoning laws where normally you’d never allow a mini hotel to open in the middle of a residential street."
"We did this in Paris and Rome. It was great. But I did get the feeling that no one lived in these places and they we only used for short term rentals."
"... most apartments in old town have been converted in hostels, airbnbs and offices. Nowadays I only go downtown if I have friends visiting, and need to show them culture and history (what remains of it)"