San Francisco Chronicle July, 2015
Both Airbnb and its San Francisco critics are correct. Most of the booming vacation-rental company’s local listings are only occasionally rented to travelers, as Airbnb says. However, at least 350 entire properties listed on Airbnb — and hundreds more listed on competing sites HomeAway/VRBO and FlipKey — appear to be full-time vacation rentals, bolstering claims by activists that the services remove scarce housing from the city’s limited inventory.
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