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Sorry to sound like I was telling you how to do your job but I see leaving out council obligations as dropping the ball if you write an article about options for handling Airbnb. It’s not just my opinion that this is a council responsibility. The article has a list of Council regulations:
https://www.domain.com.au/news/nsw-government-investigating-airbnb-rentals-20150627-ghu7l0/
Its not an opinion that councils have regulations around short term rental that they need to be enforcing. This is their job. Sydney City Council for example do acknowledge their responsibility (As you say, without doing much about it):
This might not be the most current version, but it clearly states:
“Tourist accommodation means a building or part of a building that provides temporary or short term accommodation for travellers and tourists who generally have their principal place of residence elsewhere. Tourist andVisitor Accommodation includes serviced apartments, backpacker accommodation, hotels, guest houses, bed and breakfast accommodation, motels and the like.”
How is this not the very definition of what Airbnb do?
Yes it would suit me to have the councils do their job, that doesn’t rule it out as being the best option to fix the issues. You might be right that large building strata’s might have a lazy $60,000 available to fight Airbnb, but should they have to? My experience is more around smaller buildings where there is no $60,000 fighting fund or the skills or the will to fight.
I look forward to your Uber vs Airbnb article. I see taxing Uber drivers a road tax as different to licensing which would allow restricting of inappropriate drivers. This seems to be another government failure to act.