Airbnb 'crisis' needs to be met head-on | hotelsmag.com
“Where there is smoke there is fire,” goes the old, if trite, saying. There has been plenty of smoke, most of it aired by Airbnb, when it comes to characterizing the home-rental market. Among the things Airbnb purports to have created is a whole new tour and travel market; enabled hundreds, if not thousands, of homeowners and renters to meet their housing costs; and liberated entire sections of the populace from financial ruin. The fire, metaphorical and literal, lies in the millions of dollars of economic loss to society and potential physical damage stemming from a near total lack of fire-safety systems.