Airbnb creating “Illegal hotels at the expense of precious housing”

Monday, 25 February 2019

Murray Cox, the creator of Inside Airbnb, has lashed the home-sharing platform for starving Sydney’s rental market of precious supply. From The SMH:

Mr Cox said he found most Airbnb listings were entire homes and flats, many rented permanently.

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Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.