San Francisco Underdogs Bet on Tech to Beat Airbnb’s $10 Million Ballot Push
Photo Credit: A still from Share Better's web ad in favor of Proposition F. Share Better
Skift Take
San Francisco housing is a disaster created by city leaders who have failed to plan, greedy residents who are out for a buck, and an economy that's granting outsize salaries to young people without much sense. Airbnb is only part of the problem, and Prop F is only part of the solution.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMvKATAXpRU
San Francisco is Airbnb in the extreme, and later today voters will go to the polls in the city to vote on Proposition F (embedded below), which would limit the number of days a person could rent out their entire apartment as a short-term rental.
And although the restrictions on rentals are consistent with the part-time image of hosts that Airbnb promotes, the company and its supporters are against measures that require hosts to reveal information to the government about how o
