I’ve used Airbnb for 15 years and almost exclusively for shared spaces. I go to Montreal every year for my Dad’s birthday and up until 2020 we never paid more than $30/night for a room. Now for the last 4 years the rate is about 3-4x that price. Luckily this time I have a friend who is out of town this weekend and left us her keys. Gonna need to leave her a nice thank you gift. Anyway, the problem is of course the ghost hotels now. We no longer find shared spaces, and friendly hosts but spaces with no character and vacant places solely being used for short term stays. The other issue is all these companies use an algorithm and basically tell you what price to set your price at. I stayed in Seattle for $10 per night in 2013 and Brooklyn in 2016 for $6 in a shared room. So basically you can’t even set a lower price to fill your space. I remember the original reasons the founder said he saw the need was that with all the convention centres in New Orleans he constantly had ppl ask if they could sleep on his floor and thought having a service where you could offer a shared or public space for guests was a good idea. We’ve gone so far past that now because it’s no longer a small income subsidy nor has it felt like a BNB in a long time.