[ErneX]

3-6 months rentals are not what people usually lease for, at least here it's 3 to 5 years contracts and then keep extending for one year periods. Any flat here rented for 3 to 6 months is a holiday rental and besides being more expensive it's one flat less available for the people that actually want to live in the city.

[noduerme]

Typically I was only paying about 20% more than unfurnished neighboring apartments per month, which is fair since utilities were included. There will always be furnished apartments with shorter leases for business travelers. I think I provided a good case for why it's better to accept a reasonable, lower rate to have long-term, stable tenants. I'm not saying people shouldn't be allowed to freely travel, but hotels are for weekends and vacations. "Holiday apartment" is somewhere in the middle. Those will always exist, too. It's fine as long as they don't eviscerate the city. There is a balance.

One of the most successful pushes against Airbnb taking over whole neighborhoods has been in cities which set a floor on the minimum number of nights. This at least changes the economic calculus enough to persuade landlords to consider long term local renters a little bit more.