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How Airbnb accidentally screwed the US housing market and made $100 billion (www.arktrek.shop)
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[โ€“] Yggnar@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

How

[โ€“] Fedizen@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Through the tax code. If you have a short term rental property that's not a primary residence: shazam busted. You'd need some kind of policing for it but you could force airbnb to make a filing on it as well which would make it possible to automate.