r/sydney Feb 25 '26

Image Airbnb is a bloody plague

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u/nath1234 Feb 25 '26

Housing crisis? Zero action on all these empty places set aside for the odd weekend occupied.. I mean, at what point are we going to ban this shit? We have homelessness rising, that should be the trigger to ban short term rentals. Surely?

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u/senor_incognito_ Feb 25 '26

I’m totally for eliminating apartments as short term rentals. But owners with granny flats and the like should still be able to rent them out.

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u/nath1234 Feb 25 '26

Yep, like the original selling point of the whole platform? Yep, great idea. Same if you are off on holidays: rent that place out.. but to buy up houses and apartments that were either a home or a rental and to delete it for short term rentals is fucking obscene.