The impact of Airbnb and Stayz on Australia's housing crisis | 7.30

The rapid rise of short-term rentals like Airbnb have changed the way we travel. They've also changed some neighborhoods and there are concerns they're contributing to rising rents and housing shortages in our cities.

Now, increasing numbers of local and state governments are cracking down on the sector in an effort to tackle the housing crisis. Nadia Daly reports.

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[countrybns]

Yes it definitely is!
A home that is a primary residence should be allowed to do short term stay and any property that's a single dwelling should not be allowed.

[joebullwinkle]

Short term rentals destroy the available long term rental housing stock wherever they are permitted and dramatically increase prices for home buyers, then there is the aggravated nuisance of a never ending stream of strangers turning up who have absolutely no incentive to be good neighbors and act accordingly. Who wants to let your children outside when you have these strangers loitering around your own home. All short term rental stayers in a residential neighborhood should have a criminal background check prior to be their stay. In addition the Federal government should end all negative gearing and other tax benefits for short term rentals!

[rodneyirwin]

Too much imagination is the problem Sydney has become unliveable it’s not Air bnb the the solution is not going to the sky with poorly built units good grief