I call bullshit to your bullshit. You don't know that AirBnB is skewing the market. You just see the market sucking, AirBnB existing, and went with a Post Hoc Ergo Proctor Hoc. There are so many things skewing the housing market. The rules on commercial mortgages, large corporate landlords engaging in cartel pricing, perverse incentives, wealthy people foreign and domestic buying space to park assets but not doing anything useful like renting it out or living in it, the list goes on and AirBnB is at the bottom. AirBnB provides an invaluable service, filling the niche of flexibly scaling housing for when its too long term for a hotel and too short term for a lease. Its the go to option for when you need to patch over a living situation issue just long enough to find a real place. AirBnB doesn't remove housing from the rental market because AirBnB is a rental market.