The Airbnb Effect

One of the primal criticisms of Airbnb inward that it has a negative number on affordable housing. Investigations into Airbnb, such every bit Airbnb vs Berlin, convey looked closely at 'power users'. These are landlords who role Airbnb to brand higher profits from brusk term rentals rather than from renting to long term tenants.

Inside Airbnb supply a number of mapped visualizations of Airbnb information inward major cities unopen to the world. These maps plot the locations of Airbnb listings inward each city. Each map distinguishes betwixt properties which are listed every bit unmarried rooms in addition to listings which are whole houses in addition to apartments.

For example the London map shows that over one-half of all the properties listed on Airbnb are for the entire property. 43% of the entire belongings listings are past times 'power users' - landlords who advertise to a greater extent than than ane dwelling on Airbnb. Most of these landlords are thus presumably non renting out the dwelling inward which they alive simply are operating full-time hotels out of residential properties - against London's housing laws.

The Airbnb information compiled past times Inside Airbnb for each urban meat is available to download nether a Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) "Public Domain Dedication" license.