Why? It's your home, you can do anything in it. Why should you need a license to rent out your own home for a few days? Does it physically destroy neighborhoods or just your perception of it? If so, why should anyone care?
However, there are actual rules, the rules exist for a mixture of good and bad reasons, and it has never been true to say "It's your home, you can do anything in it.".
No, you aren't free to do "anything" in your home, including provide commercial services if not properly zoned and insured.
>Why should you need a license to rent out your own home for a few days?
This is not what's happening in many places. AirBnB went from "a place to crash" to an amateur hotelier platform.
In my area we have a legal agreement between all apartment owners that things like this are not accepted.
Don't you see an issue of every single person decides to do this in your neighborhood, traffic being the first thing.
The other issue too, is most people are renting out apartments, and then Airbnbing them. Like, at that point it's not your property, you're just granted temporary permission to use it. Likewise, most condo boards don't want you to use your property as an Airbnb.
You can do this in Japan. Why shouldn't you be able to do this?
Regards you can't just ignore zoning laws because you feel like it.
One of the ways you can reduce cars is by zoning to allow greater density, which enables forms of transit which are more space-efficient than cars are. It's a chicken and egg problem, but people will be crying out for better cycle ways and trains and buses if housing becomes more dense.
Also, having commercial spread throughout residential areas reduces the amount of travel between areas, because you don't need to go far to get to the amenities you want.
This already happens in my country. It's a great way to support entrepreneurship and small businesses. I can't imagine how authoritarian the country must be to criminalize this. Are you living in North Korea or Cuba by any chance
What you mentioned is a very common thing in multiple countries - No one is afraid of random people coming into the neighborhood. (Neither do they all have guns to protect themselves).
You kinda can, but you don't get the type of legal protections a hotel or B&B that plays by the rules has.
Also like it's your home, but it's not your roads, cops, firemen, sewage system, power grid, courts... you wanna use all those services you have to play by their rules and there's a lot of rules and they don't exactly make a lot of sense.
Do you think it would impact the value of you property? Do you think that would be fair?
People care because it is a matter of justice, which is one of the fundamental precepts of society.
It's really just matter whether you view regulations as legitimate tool to curve/change behaviors that you think are detrimental to society.
And no I'm not advocating for anything based on my own personal feelings, but if something is deemed as harmful to society, yes perhaps we need to pass legislation to minimize it.
But also all laws in some way or other are based on morals - who decided that stealing is wrong? Why isn't it just fair use of "free market" of force?
If you are a legalist, a loophole in the law is the law as well. So yes, whether or not you agree with the loophole is irrelevant
Yes, it does. People buy homes for more than financial reasons. Living in a community of homeowners with neighbors you've known for years is a completely different experience than living in a revolving door community of renters. There's been a whole decade of news reports about Airbnb ruining neighborhoods and condo buildings, to the point that it's not even worth citing a particular incident.
But if there's tonnes of public urination because there are no public toilets, then even tho the law says no, people are still going to do it. There's a demand to pee that cannot be stopped.
The idea that airbnb should be outlawed is irrelevant - the fact is that there's demand for it. This means there's a lack of short term rentals in the area. The demand must be satisfied, and so the price of it grows.
It's not about 'why' care, it's about the fact that they already do care enough to have caused regulation.