by goobster

Since I know you won't click, here's the money shot:

"...Curiously, the researchers found that reports of crime did not increase at the same time that Airbnbs in a neighborhood increased, suggesting that the tourists staying in those rentals were neither committing crimes nor attracting crimes.

“It's not the visitors themselves that’s the problem, it's the fact that you took a bunch of units that normally would have functioning, contributing members of a community off of the social network,” ..."