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I've checked locally. Most of these aren't really hotels, but short term rentals.

I don't have an huge issue with short term rentals per si. They are an important niche for tourism when you take the whole family, whereas most (esp. city) hotels are not really appropriate for a family of 4 or 5.

OTOH, (esp. city) hotels are usually fine for the business trips they were designed to cater too.

This leaves us with “digital nomads.” Helping these find ways to put additional pressure on the housing market through short term rentals will only cause locals to get politicians to further restrict them.