Airbnb has always claimed it ’s a benevolent part of the sharing economy , plainly helping homeowners get a petty extra vacation immediate payment , rather than a parasite drive up prospicient - term rental price . To testify that it ’s serious , the company has announce a crackdown in San Fransisco .
In along instruction posted on Saturday , Airbnb revealed the breakdown of rentals in the city over the last year . Entire - home listings offered by users who deal more than one property are generally frowned upon , since those are much more likely to be commercial-grade operators , rather than homeowners looking for extra Johnny Cash , or a holiday letting .
The datum unfreeze by Airbnb suggest that the ship’s company has a problem , but not a giant one : short - term , entire - home listings from users with multiple listings made up 17 percent of Airbnb ’s entire tax income in SF last year . The company enunciate it has identify 288 hosts managing 671 listings for “ potential natural process ” . It suspect those hosts may be “ touch on the availability of long term letting lodging in the city ” .
Airbnb ’s stated goal — to free itself of “ unwished commercial-grade operators”—is certainly good , but the company has a spoiled chronicle with this exact topic . Last year , in an effort to demonstrate its good will , the companionship let a few diarist look at its information for a unforesightful time in a closed surround , but was then latercaught outcleaning up the databefore showing it off .
With that in psyche , it ’s important to approach Airbnb ’s a la mode move with a healthy dosage of skepticism . To keep public opinion ( and lawgiver ) on its side , the company has to cautiously curate a public image of it helping the caparison shortage , not making things worse . But at the same clip , more money is more listings , and Airbnb wo n’t want to lose any more taxation than it absolutely has to .
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