Banning Airbnb considered as housing crisis bites in coastal towns

Towns will consider absolutely anything to lower costs except building new housing: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mcsweeneys.net&#x2F;articles&#x2F;i-will-do-anything-to-end-homelessness-except-build-more-homes" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mcsweeneys.net&#x2F;articles&#x2F;i-will-do-anything-to-en...</a>.<p>Sadly, we&#x27;re at the stage of this &quot;crisis&quot; where parody is the only appropriate response.

Hope they ban investment properties for residential addresses. Investment properties should really only be for business buildings.

I just want to say, I live in a country where there are laws for and against almost everything, where most Airbnb listings are basically illegal, yet the city I live in is one of the top Airbnb destination.<p>What I mean, is that laws are useless if there is no means to for them to be seriously enforced, which is the case where I live.<p>On the other hand, if I were to create my own Airbnb website in that same country, I&#x27;d be shut down by the end of the week and put in jail facilitating illegal renting listings, while Airbnb executives risk absolutely nothing since they live in USA.

I wonder if America will ever build new cities.

Monterey CA (USA) bans all rentals of less than a month except for legal hotels.