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Unless you're part of the general public who lives in a desirable area, and your rent is increasing because limited housing is being turned into unregulated hotels.

I should say, I've used AirBnB many times and always had a great experience, but this isn't a clear cut "good" vs "evil" issue.

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"limited housing" is the key point. Most North American municipalities have painful and binding limits on the number of housing units allowed: http://www.metafilter.com/148375/Anyone-have-a-Pop-up-blocke...

Banning AirBnB is at best going to lower demand a little bit, it' not going to fix the much larger underlying problem.

Completely agree. I'm just saying it's not a clear cut issue of the public vs. the hotels.

There are legitimate arguments for limiting someone's ability to rent out their living space to short term tenants that have nothing to do with the hotel lobby. As someone who lives in an apartment building with fairly thin walls, I can sympathize with some one not wanting a parade of short term tenants as their neighbor.

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