Hmm…

What did we do before Airbnb? Futons?… MOTELS?! What horror!

If you’ve cringed along thus far, well, prepare to cringe some more ’cause we’ve got some bad news.

There are new Airbnb regulations and bans coming.

The NSW government has today agreed to impose a 180-night cap on the number of nights spent in an Airbnb-rental in greater Sydney and has also allowed Strata corporations to vote to ban Airbnb lettings in their buildings.

The reforms also include a new mandatory Code of Conduct accompanied by a two-strike policy, whereby hosts or guests who commit two serious breaches of the code within two years will be banned for five years and listed on an exclusion register.

The change means that not only will people visiting Sydney may potentially have trouble finding the same range of Airbnb properties as previously. 

As the strictest of all the states laws, the change also has the potential to act as a precedent for other states’ legislation.

So I guess we have to go back to staying in tall buildings filled with the exact same room copy/pasted again and again?

What are those called again?

 

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Written by Ally Parker