I feel so ambivalent about this.

I can understand how AirBnB might raise rent prices.

I can understand how that's a serious problem, and agree it should be dealt with.

But seriously, as a home-owner, why shouldn't I be allowed to rent out any amount of space in my own property arbitrarily to whoever I so please for a short term without seeking a loicense from my central government?

This isn't meant to be argumentative. Why should anyone have the right to tell me who I can and cannot shelter under my own roof if they aren't a criminal?

Or, more-specifically, because concerns like this have to be weighed by effect: is the problem really so bad that it merits usurping someone's right to use their property in order to counteract? I do own a house, but I don't live in a metro area, so I could use some perspective.