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Good, let the people who live there live there.
Obviously it's the landlord who do it for profit. It's not like the tourist just came to the city and shove the residents out of their own home or something like that.
All this would do is shift the profits to hotel chains. The rent will never go down and the landlord will never sell.
Back when there were "mom and pop" AirBnb, maybe this was a bad thing. Now, a huge number of rentals are owned by companies with big portfolios specializing in short term rentals.
It's become a really big problem in certain cities.
I don't see this as a bad thing.