AirBnb and Crime
Top of Mind with Julie Rose - Season 1, Episode 1650 , Segment 5
Conservatorships, Domestic Terrorism, Airbnb and Crime
Episode: Conservatorships, Domestic Terrorism, Airbnb and Crime
- Jul 26, 2021 8:00 pm
- 19:37 mins
Neighborhoods with a lot of people renting their homes or apartments out on Airbnb often experience an increase in crime—but is that really because tourists commit those crimes? Daniel O’Brien, a professor of public policy and urban affairs at Northeastern University, has a new study that points to a different potential causality between vacation rentals and crime. (Segment produced by Martha Harris)