Airbnb Regulation Debate
The cluster focuses on debates about Airbnb's role in facilitating illegal short-term rentals, skirting hotel and zoning regulations, and whether the company should be held legally accountable for enabling hosts to break local laws.
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Do you have a case where Airbnb is being charged with doing that?
You are arguing against the legality of airbnb.
The lack of interest on the side of AirBnB is not very surprising: They know exactly that renting out apartments without a proper license is illegal in most parts of the world, they just don't care since they can externalize the risk to the owners of the apartments. Personally, I can understand the frustration of the people that are on the loosing end of this business model: Neighbors who find that their building has become a busy hotel complex, landlords who see the value of their property
I blame Airbnb and I suggest we hold them accountable because they are the ones enabling people to rent out short-term in areas that were planned as residential.Hotels are properly regulated, but AirBnb is profiting off circumventing the existing (good, working) rules on where tourist hotels are to be located.And they are not a neutral marketplace because many people would not rent a room from a random stranger without the guarantees that Airbnb claims to provide.If eBay were to offer w
Airbnb is regulated to hell too.
Wouldn't it be smart of airbnb to not allow people in cities known that their services are illegal not to allow people to post those apartments ?
Airbnb skirts regulations by pretending its not a hotel service; you can't have it both ways.
AirBnb should be responsible for providing a framework for complying with regional regulations of this sort. Why isn't AirBnb liable for facilitating users to break the law?
Why wouldn't it be AirBNB's responsibility to prevent hosts from operating illegally?
Can they use Airbnb and the likes to bypass this?