idk this story really wants to paint the duplex lady as sympathetic, but she's living the high life to have an entire separate house attached to hers to do what she pleases with. i don't really feel bad that she can't make money off airbnb with it, she can still ~~exploit people~~ make money off it by having long term tenants. you know, like she wasn't just arbitrarily taking an entire housing situation off the market. sure, she's not as much of a problem as big corpos making bank on airbnb, but i fully feel like she's more in that category than not

i'm open to hearing other opinions on this, though. i've never lived in a duplex. maybe they're really intimate with consideration to the other people living there? but from my view, this seems just like someone who owns two apartments and is now upset they can't get their airbnb slice of the pie for the other one

The only people who are sad about this are tourists and shitty shadow-hotel landlords. I'll forgive the tourists.

I feel like this is a little overcompensation to the problem but it's better to start that way. The professional Airbnb landlord with multiple properties needs to be shut down but I feel like the more casual user should be allowed. If it's half of a duplex seems fine but multiple properties not so much. They take up so much housing.

I have done Airbnb for a long time and it's definitely getting worse but it's better in Europe than the US. I'm sure the regulations are a part of this

Wonder how much the hotels paid to make this happen.