Regulate Airbnb now

It is baffling that the Minister for Housing has not yet moved to regulate Airbnb. While no one is suggesting that the accommodation-sharing website is solely to blame for the housing market’s many ills, there is no doubt that in certain parts of the country, it is having an impact on the availability of private rented accommodation.

The data-scraping website Inside Airbnb puts the number of properties on the site in Dublin at ...