The "Sharing" Economy

[paft]

Recently, I got an interesting glimpse into the issue of affordable housing in San Francisco when I attended a City Hall hearing on the transfer of liquor licenses. One of the cases involved the transfer of a license into a space on the ground floor of an apartment building. There was, the building owners insisted, only one tenant who had been

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[htpcl]

Sounds bad. What particular regulations would you propose to rectify this problem?

[paft]

Solutions include putting some teeth into existing regulations on evictions and conversions, adding hefty fines to rental companies for violations, requiring all hosts to register with the city and submit quarterly reports on safety, limiting the number of airbnbs per building and allowing residential neighborhoods to ban airbnbs.