The Housing Gap

Airbnb: Dream or Nightmare?

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A booking is made with Airbnb or similar every two seconds. But behind the numbers and glossy websites is a darker side: nightmare tenants, fraudulent landlords and a legal system failing to keep up.
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Sep 08, 2021
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