What Airbnb Does to Renters, Employees, and Cities
A recent study argues that cities need to start treating Airbnb like any other hotel business, and regulate it accordingly.
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Attractive People Charge More on Airbnb
In the short-term rental market, the key factors are location, location, and cheekbones.
As Airbnb Moves In, Boston’s Chinatown Sees Its Culture—and Demographics—Change
Short-term rentals are spreading through Chinatown, displacing residents and changing the culture of the neighborhood in the process.
Airbnb Is Coming for Your Neighborhood
In New York City, Airbnb has raised rents, removed housing from the rental market, and fueled gentrification—and its effects are being felt elsewhere too.
Are Technology Companies Really Driving the Gig Economy?
Silicon Valley takes credit for transforming the U.S. economy. New research paints a more complicated picture. By Jared…
Who Benefits From AirBnB?
The sharing economy continues to evolve, suggesting a need for "algorithmic regulation."
Is the Future of the Sharing Economy Small-Scale?
It could be, if companies like Uber become platform providers more than the services themselves.
Inside the Police-Industrial Complex
At the 2015 convention of the International Association of Chiefs of Police, a view of the public-private partnerships that have come to shape modern policing—and to complicate questions of reform.
Who Really Runs the Airbnbs?
Outside investors buying properties and turning them into full-time, short-term rentals are pricing locals out of the market.
How AirBnB Threatens Urban Creative Space
The end result of an AirBnB'd neighborhood is not a profitable artist collective; it's an international bedroom community of "post-tourist" upwardly mobile workers.