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It\u2019s a question individual owners in Australia are asking themselves \u2013 but one that may be better directed to governments and corporates<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Karla Costello has seen the headlines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More than 50,000 Queenslanders waiting on the social housing register<\/a>. A Brisbane real estate agency urging landlords to increase rents by more than double the inflation rate<\/a>. The state\u2019s premier, Annastacia Palaszczuk, hosting a housing summit<\/a> in a bid to solve a residential property shortage that shows no signs of abating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Costello appreciates how fortunate she is to have a roof over her head. She also sleeps better at night knowing her Gold Coast investment property is no longer a transit lounge for holidaymakers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt was very difficult to watch our apartment sitting empty when we didn\u2019t have guests,\u201d she says of the two-bedroom property in beachside Miami that she rented via\u00a0Airbnb<\/a>\u00a0for more than two years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m someone who makes decisions every day about how my actions as an individual affect the world and I\u2019m not sure that was a great result for our local community. I even asked my partner if we could let the homeless man who lived on The Esplanade stay in it on the nights it wasn\u2019t booked.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Costello and her partner no longer need to have such discussions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After returning their property to the long-term rental market, she has been spared the internal conflict she knows would have come from hearing the Queensland government this week announce it would launch an investigation into how the short-term letting market<\/a> is affecting the state\u2019s housing crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It came after the Queensland Greens introduced a bill<\/a> that would tax short-stay landlords an annual 5% levy on the value of their property. Meanwhile, Brisbane City Council has increased rates for short-term accommodation<\/a> properties by 50%, asking residents to \u201cdob in\u201d neighbours suspected of advertising on platforms such as Airbnb and Stayz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A lot of questions are being asked about short-term rentals of late but there is another that rarely gets raised in a society such as ours \u2013 is it ethical to rent out your property on Airbnb during a housing crisis?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The individual versus society<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

As executive director of The\u00a0Ethics<\/a>\u00a0Centre, Dr Simon Longstaff is well qualified to look at the phenomenon of short-term rentals through an ethical lens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Continue reading…<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is an excerpt from an article by Dwayne Grant published earlier by The Guardian<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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