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by temphn 4694 days ago
> I trust the city government to keep the neighboring landlord from turning his apartment buiding into a ghetto hotel without the proper noise-mitigation measures, more than I trust AirBnB to do it.

You do? Section 8 ring a bell? Many more landlords and governments agencies have turned apartments into ghetto hotels than individual Airbnb hosts. And the result has been a spike in the murder rate:

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/07/american...

So USG is using tax dollars to move in murderers next door, and landlords are taking those dollars. Yet one trusts USG to "protect" you from a ghetto hotel?