A recent study argues that cities need to start treating Airbnb like any other hotel business, and regulate it accordingly.
In the short-term rental market, the key factors are location, location, and cheekbones.
Short-term rentals are spreading through Chinatown, displacing residents and changing the culture of the neighborhood in the process.
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.
The sharing economy continues to evolve, suggesting a need for "algorithmic regulation."
It could be, if companies like Uber become platform providers more than the services themselves.
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.
Outside investors buying properties and turning them into full-time, short-term rentals are pricing locals out of the market.
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.
Silicon Valley is a perfect place to get rich and richer. It’s also a perfect place to be in the ranks of the working poor and working poorer.