Cities ask residents to snitch on illegal Airbnb rentals

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By Katie HerzogMay 13, 2016, 12:44 pm113 pts
Rental services like Airbnb and VRBO take up valuable real estate for short-term stays. This can mean that housing supply goes down, rent goes up, and residents get displaced by visitors, as we noted last week. That’s a big enough problem that now at least two German cities are asking their citizens to…

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