Links to the latest opinion/articles:
FWIW: After reading this in the last link:
Those against short-term lettings (and there are many of them with very valid concerns) should accept that some owners want to share their property. Instead of fighting a rear-guard action against it, the goal of the anti-Airbnb brigade should be to agitate to have government establish a good “fair use and fair pay” policy for strata living.
My biggest issue with airbnb is with implications for fire safety. Doesn’t anyone remember the Childers Backpackers catastrophe? There are reasons why hotels/hostels have more stringent building code requirements.
What happens to buildings zoned & built to code ‘residential’ when they permit/are forced to permit short stay lets? Who is responsible for bringing the building up to code & maintaining the higher level? Or won’t that be a bother until we have a coronial inquest into what went wrong in building ‘X’?