Reply To: ‘Dob in B&B breachers’ plan could boost housing

Just to be clear, no state government in Australia is even remotely interested in doing anything that might deter tourists, and that includes making it less lucrative for people to put their homes on Airbnb and Stayz.

Airbnb has insisted from the beginning that there is no problem with people “sharing” their homes. And to some extent that’s true, because the biggest problem is commercial enterprises where head tenants rent residential homes and sub-let them as short-term lets.

Australia has the laxest short-term letting laws in the developed world. We are Europe and America’s doss house.