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Can this new, neighbourly short let platform help to ease anti-AirBnB feeling?

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A new online platform for short-term let hosts in multi-occupancy buildings aims to provide reassurance to neighbours and councils.

Users of Trusted
Homes can sign up to notify buildings of their intention to short-let, predict
how many days they will be short letting for, and sign up to a raft of best
practices, including limiting guest turnover by only accepting bookings of
three nights or more.

As Airbnb comes under increasing attack from
tenants’ groups and councils who blame the short-term lets sector for helping to create a housing crisis in the region’s cities,
Trusted Hosts promises to offer a “much-needed
solution that will ensure an environment of trust and consistency”.

Launched this
week by trade body the UK Short Term Accommodation Association
(STAA), and digital property management firm Locale, the platform aims to make
it simple for short-term accommodation policies to be implemented throughout
whole buildings, as well as giving building managers and owners full visibility
of short-term activity.

The scheme aims
to ease pressure on local councils through easily-to-access guidance; it
promises to share data with them about the number of users in their borough as
well as provide reassurance to residents that short-term arrangements in their
building are adhering to best practice.

Trusted Hosts is set to
be piloted in the London borough of Westminster (although no date has been set)
and could then be rolled out UK-wide.

Merilee Karr, chair of the
STAA, says: “Trusted Hosts will
provide building managers, short-term hosts and residents of multi-occupancy
buildings with the reassurance that short-term letting in their building will
be conducted in a trustworthy and conscientious way in accordance with our
guidelines.”

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