@c_mcph said:
“Because it is not, so far as I know, being seriously discussed and that’s because councils have made it clear they aren’t interested.”If it’s the right way to handle the issue then it should be discussed and it is irrelevant to me as a taxpayer that the councils are stating that they are not interested.
Perhaps, but it isn’t being discussed, which is my point.
Councils are the right people to manage this and everyone, especially journalists, should make an effort to highlight that.
That is your opinion, and definitely not mine, if only because they have failed spectacularly to manage this issue to date.
Oh, and thanks for telling me how to do my job.
Executive committees are not capable or willing to own this responsibility and the outcome if they are will be very bad in many ways.
Again this is only your opinion and a deeply flawed one at that. Several chairs of large buildings have just put over $60,000 into a fighting fund to combat the the one-sided publicity trotted out by Airbnb.
How can you then say they wouldn’t be interested in policing this in their own buildings, since that is exactly what they are campaigning for?
The scenario you describe would undoubtedly suit you but you can’t extrapolate your personal and (by your own admission) biased preference into a policy that would work for everyone.