[ashwagary]

Hotels should be zoned for commercial activity. He's right about the AirBNB business model increasing homelessness.

[taylodl]

What has increased homelessness is communities restricting new building. The homeless have no means for buying the typical AirBNB property.

[ashwagary]

>The homeless have no means for buying the typical AirBNB property.

This is partially due to people buying up available housing stock to AirBNB resulting in a skewing of prices.

Many houses that would be back on the market now sit empty with no tenants for significant portions of every month thanks to that business model.

[wwweston]

Not adding supply and taking existing supply off the market both contribute to supply issues.

And I'm not sure that AirBnB avoids any particular segment of the market; it can as easily cannibalize 1bd condos as it can 4bd homes.