Does AirBnB harm housing affordability? The simple answer is "yes". The more complicated answer is... "it depends". In this video we look at the effect of AirBnB on housing affordability based on a study in Portugal.

Study: https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/IJHMA-04-2021-0047/full/pdf

Previous study from Portugal also finding a hit to affordability from AirBnB: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0166046221000272

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Music we used: Medium Rock by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Artist: http://audionautix.com/

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