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Re:Turns out claims Airbnb was taking houses out of the rent... by ornornor on Sunday March 22, 2020 @04:19AM (#22653519)
To be fair, only Airbnb and Airbnb landlords were thinking that Airbnb didn’t hurt the local rental market. The rest of us knew.
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Re:Turns out claims Airbnb was taking houses out of the rent... by DoreenMichele on Sunday March 22, 2020 @04:22AM (#22653529)
To be fair, it started out more like paid couch surfing and then pivoted. The original idea was sharing your home part-time, not dedicating a private residence to short term rental use, which is what it has mostly become.

This is probably not where the founders really meant for it to go.

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