[ehutch79]

AirBNB was originally designed around renting a room in the place you live. More akin to couchsurfing then a hotel. So while it's pivoted, there are side effects they wern't really setup to think about.

I wouldn't even say damage is the main problem, so much as neighborhoods being descended upon by random people who don't care about the neighbors or their sleep.

Beyond just the summer, a lot of housing is being reallocated from long term, traditional tenants to airbnb, driving up rent prices.

[mrguyorama]

This was always a farce though. At the size they were trying to push themselves to be, there were never enough couch surfers to support that business. Just like how Uber's "just share rides" was always nonsense.