AirBnb and CrimeTop of Mind with Julie Rose • Season 1, Episode 1650, Segment 5
Jul 26, 2021 • 20m
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)