Airbnb has started to attract investigations into the acquit on of the company's popularity on social housing. H5N1 couplet of week's agone nosotros reported on Airbnb vs Berlin, a information driven investigation into the popularity of Airbnb inwards Berlin. The San Francisco Courier has right away published an investigation into Airbnb's Impact inwards San Francisco.
The Chronicle's study includes a map criterion Airbnb activeness inwards the metropolis past times neighborhood. The map includes 3 choropleth layers showing the issue of Airbnb listings past times neighborhood, the average toll inwards each neighborhood as well as the issue of reviews per neighborhood.
One of the criticisms of Airbnb inwards the Berlin investigation was that at that topographic point were a issue of 'power users' - users who listing a issue of properties on Airbnb. The Chronicle's investigation reveals that 4.8 portion of hosts inwards San Francisco bring 3 or to a greater extent than properties. These ability users may good last commercial landlords exploiting the service to brand higher profits from brusk term rentals rather than from renting out their properties to long term tenants. The termination of this could last to withdraw much needed housing stock from the market.
