City of Sydney to investigate Airbnb ban for investment properties | SMH

Sydney’s Airbnb boom has frustrated City of Sydney Deputy Mayor Jess Miller, who wants the state government to collect more data on the types of short-term rentals being listed in NSW.

Miller said investors were turning residential-zoned homes into commercial operations, with no need to submit applications for an official change of use for the site.

While NSW bans unoccupied Airbnb listings from being rented out more than 180 days of the year, poor data made this hard to enforce, Miller said.

She said the fact that an entire two-bedroom home inside the Sirius building is being offered as a luxury short-term rental is “really offensive” to those public housing tenants forced to leave their homes when the state government announced plans to sell the building.