Is there any evidence that apartments rented out with AirBnB are more prone to crime and abuse of non-tenants than apartments not rented out with AirBnB?
You're effectively asking whether apartments rented to unchecked strangers for days at a time are more prone to abuse than apartments rented months or years at a time.
There is a reason hotels require "special use" zoning exceptions in cities, and it's not because Mariott and Hyatt have captured the city council; it's often the residents who create uproars when those exceptions are granted.
This is seen in Berlin, where some houses have several ferienwohnung. People come and go and are usually very loud while staying. People who really live in those buildings complain a lot and for a reason.
I'm not sure if we're talking about the same thing, we might be, we might not be.
You are talking about renting apartments to unchecked strangers for days and I am talking about people renting out their apartment on AirBnB. There's some relationship between the two sets but I don't think they're equivalent.
Regardless, is there evidence for the claim that crime and abuse of non-tenants is higher for either the set you're talking about or the set I'm talking about than in the general population?
I haven't looked, but my intuition is that the differences are so pronounced that finding data should not be difficult. I would not want my neighbors regularly renting their apartment while they are out of town. There is already a substantial enough difference in decorum and responsibility between owners and renters that condo associations as well as the mortgage industry (as well as FHA) establish maximum renter to owner ratios.
I live in a high rise that also contains a hotel, but with different lobbies and elevators, and that doesn't bother me. I think this is because a hotel has a management staff that maintains common area decorum and holds occupants responsible for their actions during their stay. An apartment rented on airbnb has no similar oversight or responsibility for common facilities.
Yes. There is enough evidence of this that NYC created an entirely new beauracracy just to handle these issues. Numerous papers have published articles describing fraudulent or deceptive AirBnB listings, the guests' lack of resource, AirBnB's lack of assistance.
I'm asking about evidence for the higher rates of crime and abuse to non-tenants that tptacek claimed, not about deceptive listings on AirBnB or damage to tenants.
