I got banned for life from AirBnB

When I travel for more than a couple of days I like to have a kitchen and a separate bedroom (especially if with friends or a couple), and it's often expensive to find a hotel with this, or impossible in a smaller town. Plus, some homes are just wonderful experiences: I've stayed on boats, hammocks, tiny guest rooms in the mountains I wouldn't have found otherwise, met people who are now my life-long friends .. - I don't mind AirBnB operating but I wish it was regulated that you can be permanently renting out a home you don't live in. I've seen too many cities lose beds for the locals.

My reason is that it's 2-3x times cheaper. An airbnb room in Amsterdam is the same price as a hostel where you would be sharing a room with 7 other people.

I doubt that Airbnb behaves any differently in 2019 than they did in 2018.

Here's the original HN discussion from 7 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17523056