Long-term rental, or Airbnb?

How Airbnb Factors Into Seattle Displacement Concerns

Interesting article from Next City about the role of Airbnb in housing supply and demand.

Relative to New York’s 34,000-plus and Los Angeles’ nearly 21,000 Airbnb listings, Seattle’s short-term rental market is small. But Greenwich says the city needs to act now in order to prevent its rapid growth from hurting the city’s low-income communities and communities of color most at risk of being displaced.
— Josh Cohen, Next City