There is some conversation in the legal world that what is happening is unconstitutional. The STR's have greatly improved many, many areas of urban blight and drug houses that have been turned around to be safe, fun neighborhoods and the metropolitan cities like Indianapolis (which has one of the highest hotel taxes in the country) will tax the hell out of us after we took their s**t and turned it into something awesome. I now have a house in another city with the same thing happening. Even the staff in the city departments see it and think their city leaders are on crack for restricting STRs. (Maybe the drug traffickers moved into town hall!). Seriously, this is no different than homeowner associations that tried to keep rentals out of their communities altogether. HOA's are particularly heinous villains when it comes to fair housing laws. And yes the original home swapping thing has had its culture "cancelled" in some ways and has been coopted to some degree by opportunistic big business vulnerable communities that get hurt because it exacerbates an already acute housing shortage. So fine tune the restrictive laws to keep the bastards out! Then let homeowners do what they want with their homes to survive, for some of us, and hey, for others, even thrive! What's wrong with that? We are not gazzillionaires doing this, we are trying to do our best with the cards handed us. I just did my taxes last night, Holy Crap! The utilities, property taxes and cleaning fees make this a money-maker for everyone but the owner in the metro areas with low room prices. Our prices have to be - the taxes and airbnb fees which, if you haven't noticed, parallel the taxes from city to city, make the room price so high we have to keep our rent down in the motel-in-the-desert price. (Seriously, airbnb charges guests 4% in a nearby city but it's 13 to 14% in Indy, and add the 17% hotel tax, 30% of what the guest pays goes to the vultures, not you, not us, working so hard to provide a beautiful and safe place for travelers and people in transition.). The answer is and always has been, neighborhoods need to have mixed use and density, and lots of green to look out onto and the cities need to be supportive, not GREEDY.