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They're not banning ALL AirBnB rentals. From the article:

"The new laws still don’t mean all Berlin homestays will disappear overnight. People will still be able to rent out rooms in their homes, as long as the rooms don’t cover more than 50 percent of the property’s floor space."

Title should be changed IMO.

>>frakki+(OP)
Ok, we added "some". Thanks.

Edit: actually, we've changed the title to that of the article itself, in accordance with the HN guidelines. Submitters: it's against the rules here to rewrite a title except when it is misleading or linkbait, so please only do so in those cases.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

>>frakki+(OP)
One has to think though that especially for somewhere like Berlin most people are going to want to rent an entire apartment> I know when I go to Berlin, I would prefer not to have to stumble drunk through someone's apartment while they are there to get to a bedroom.

>>frakki+(OP)
It appears that AirBnB makes most of their revenue from whole apartment rentals including in markets where whole apartment short term rentals are illegal like NYC.