What Does Banning Short-Term Rentals Accomplish?

Short term rental have always been around. The "uberization" of short term rentals is the problem... Also privacy in the era of hidden cameras, discrimination, cleanliness, and safety issues are all problems that are skirted often by this uberization of the short term rental market. The companies at the hilt of profiteering don't provide proper oversight, insurance, accountability, and reasonable price controls to make this industry last, and they're also driving home buying and rental prices up during the worst economy while not dependably employing nor helping anyone other than people who have enough wealth to own & rent properties at over market value, while putting (the better regulated) hotel industry out of business.

> While this [i.e. Short-Term Rentals Operated Like Hotels] has happened in some cities, most notably Amsterdam and Barcelona, we have no evidence that this is actually the case in New York [...]

This is really worth keeping in mind when reading the conclusions.

The "operated as a hotel" kind of airbnb are very dominant in many places, so I would guess the result of "it doesn't really impact the housing market" doesn't generalize to these places.