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airbnb is not a bad business, as a localized venture. imagine each city had it's own version of airbnb run by the local city council. not some vc funded, destroy regulations & rental market at all costs, company. a city owned short term rental market would be both beneficial to cities, tourists n hosts. aye, if there's any salesperson out there wanna partna on to build a platform we can sell to cities, I"m open.

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The hotels in any city would lobby to kill any sort of government intrusion into the private sector like that.

On top of that cities prefer nice compartmentalized systems, short term rentals are hotels, long term rentals are apartments. City planners designate different areas for different use cases, airbnb style rentals go against this and raise all sorts of problems. This is one of the major reasons why cities generally dislike airbnb.

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