How Scotland Tried To Fix Its Short-Term Rental Problem | Full Episode| SBS Dateline
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Holiday rental apps like Airbnb are accused of causing residential rental costs to soar. In 2023, Dateline looked into Scotland's policies against short-term lets, some of the harshest in the world at the time.
This episode first aired in 2023.
00:00 How bad is Edinburgh's rental housing crisis 02:49 How the city officials want to regulate short-term lets 06:28 What one Airbnb host thinks of the new rules 11:08 Airbnb's response to new restrictions 13:04 A housing issue bigger than short-term lets
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