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airbnb is the devil. itβs literally ruining entire neighbourhoods and communities with people that only have their vacation brains switched on. they need to be regulated, hard.
Everybody hates zoning laws until ...
There are a lot of issues with zoning laws that don't fall into the knee jerk libertarian category. A lot of places disallow things like mixed use zoning and high density residential.
For values of "lots of places" that are limited to North America. In Germany if you're a hair stylist or supermarket you can set up shop literally anywhere: As you're quiet enough you can set up in a residential area, as you're not a residence you can set up in an heavy industry area. There may be height restrictions and other local details, but no limit to number of residences in a building as long as each still has a liveable size and a window, college dorm room plus small bath is about the minimum. There is no zoning category that Americans would consider non-mixed.
High density residential is overvalued, you quickly get diminishing returns and above an average of eight storeys or such things quickly become negative: All those folks also need green space, they need transport, they need infrastructure, you can't give every single skyscraper its own metro station. Think Bronx, not Manhattan. Also way cheaper and don't tell me you don't have space you're not Singapore.
I like sensible zoning laws.
Yep.
But I admit I'm one of them, though I also recognize it's not an easy thing to do well. Whenever something like this comes up for a vote in my area, it really takes me a while to figure out the pros/cons, long-term implications, who benefits, etc.
Yeah we have a cabin in a nice secluded area which used to be just home owners to get away for a week or so and a few people who lived there full time.
It was a nice getaway to go fishing and have a campfire.
Then airbnb took off and people bought in to the neighbourhood to simply rent out the cabins every other week and now there's strangers running around partying, setting off fireworks, looking into windows of people's houses, etc. we are thinking we might as well rent out our cabin now because it's just not enjoyable anymore so might as well profit like everyone else is.