The guests behind the bookings have received negative reviews from a number of Bay Area hosts, alleging they damaged the property and personal belongings.
Probably less than you’re trying to imply. The biggest factors in homelessness are mental illness and drug addiction, not cost or availability of housing.
There’s plenty of studies on this subject. And cost of housing is one of the primary factors. Substance abuse and mental health are certainly important as well.
Sure, but I don’t think the existence of Airbnb has much impact on homelessness
does people having multiple homes and driving up the price of housing contribute to homelessness?
Probably less than you’re trying to imply. The biggest factors in homelessness are mental illness and drug addiction, not cost or availability of housing.
Citation needed.
You’re overestimating how much individual factors are a problem compared to structural factors.
I don’t have a citation because I’ve never seen data either way. Happy to change my mind if the data exists.
There’s plenty of studies on this subject. And cost of housing is one of the primary factors. Substance abuse and mental health are certainly important as well.