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The questions are all valid. My beef is that he's not asking to get the answers, but to plant notions in our head.

> How many million houses has Airbnb taken off the market so far

Is AirBnB expected to know which houses are owner occupied, and which are only occasionally listed? I mean, they can likely infer it from how often a unit is listed as available, but I doubt they make people disclose that. Same point for the other one.

There are independent ways to study this. You don't need to rely on AirBnB to find it out. A simple Google search reveals this: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/airbnb-probably-isnt-dr...

Granted, it's a bit old, but could he have not done this before posting it?




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