[bluecalm]

Short term rentals fulfil important function. There is real demand for it. The problem is that it's expensive or just impossible to build anything and that it's very cheap to own.

The solution is known: significant land value tax and looser regulations to actually use the land. This will not happen though because of lobbying of property and land owners who enjoy their rent seeking. They will always manage to find another scape goat. One day it's flippers, next day it's Airbnb. Anything but land owners being forced to pay taxes to fund the area they own land on.