apropos reading, did you read the link I sent?

Mom and pop rentals have been around forever, and the growth of that market is tiny.

Home and rental prices exploded EXACTLY at the same time as the growth of large corporate groups getting into the market. The issue is NOT individual rental property owners.

I put Airbnb owners into the corporate pile. It is not possible to skew an entire market (e.g. parts of London) without the giant corporate influence of Airbnb. Individual owners do not have the money to lobby governments to get regulations ignored or removed - only big corporations do.

I'm VERY happy to see municipalities reacting relatively quickly to counter Airbnb. My adopted home town of Vienna has just enacted a law that says you can only short term lease your property for max 90 days a year. That kills the viability of having permanent Airbnb properties, and returns to the viable (IMO) model of, "renting out where I live when I'm not there, or extra rooms in my house."