If you live in cities you see how awful it is - you witness the stupidly high rents, the frustration amongst friends, families, and you hear the talk at work...it's tough. AirBnB really exacerbates the problem. I have friends in Toronto that say it's overwhelming that city - and rents their are already stupidly high. I'm not sure how most Canadians can afford to live here.
It was a nice idea, and likely functions quite well still in smaller areas, but it has become a plague on tourist destinations and it really does hurt certain places tremendously. You see higher rents in areas that already have a housing crisis, and just generally a ruination of what made some of these cities so great. I don't know. I find it all rather sad.
And, like everything else, I blame people from the suburbs.
They're oblivious jerks...the same dolts that take cruises instead of real vacations. I remember going to Croatia and the terror of the cruise ship arrivals. The Walking Dead descending upon land without any plans of buying anything, just walk around and torturing everyone while waiting for their cow bell to sound so they know when to return to their ship. Blah. I've heard it's quite the same in Italy, etc...