Airbnb: who's in, who's out, and what this tells us about rental impacts in Sydney and Melbourne
- Written by Tooran Alizadeh, Senior Lecturer, Director of Urban Design, University of Sydney
The rapid growth of the giant online accommodation-sharing platform, aka Airbnb, is creating serious concerns about equity and the impacts on our cities and neighbourhoods as we know them. Our recent research shows that the patterns of Airbnb listings in Australia’s biggest cities are highly uneven. The findings suggest impacts on rental...