The impact of short-term holiday lets, like Airbnb, on Scotland's rental crisis | SBS Dateline

Holiday rental apps like Airbnb are accused of causing residential rental costs to soar. Dateline travels to Scotland with some of the harshest policies against short term lets in the world.
00:00 Intro
01:28 Edinburgh's rental housing crisis
03:39 Why Scotland's government is cracking down on short-term lets
06:44 The Scottish model of regulating the short-term lets
08:23 What Airbnb host Fran thinks of the new licensing rules
12:18 How Airbnb responded to new restrictions
14:14 This village has the highest concentration of Aribnbs in the country but short-term lets aren't its biggest housing issue
19:49 Finding the balance between short and long-term lets
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