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Re:Nearly 80% of Japan’s Airbnbs removed in response to new ... by undersuit on Friday June 08, 2018 @04:04PM (#17269238)
> it's lack of supply of high density apartment living options.

Devil's Advocate: I'd agree that AirBnB isn't entirely to blame, but a large company helping your town's citizen rezone their long-term residential units into short-term residential units and not telling the town isn't going to help the zoning board make correct decisions.

Japan has made a good decision to at least butt themselves into the process.

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Re:Nearly 80% of Japan’s Airbnbs removed in response to new ... by Thriptic on Friday June 08, 2018 @06:08PM (#17270129)
I totally agree, but it's not like this data is hidden. It would be relatively straight forward to monitor how many Airbnb units operate at any given time just by looking at the site repeatedly, and you could approximate how many rentals exist using tax data and corporate data.
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