[kdkooo]

How is it that "city officials acknowledge that New Orleans simply does not have the resources to enforce this rule — given the 2,400 to 4,000 short-term rental listings on various services", but they had the resources to find those numbers?

[themartorana]

Search "New Orleans" on a series of short-term rental sites, add numbers together, grab a cup of coffee, it's still 8:59 am?

[MichaelBurge]

The same way I don't have time to collect a sample of every beetle in existence, but do know that there are about 400,000 species of beetle: I asked Google and it told me the answer.