What is the rate of return on the rental of a residential home? In most cases, it is 3% to 4%. With the military stipend, maybe 5%.  Now with AIRBNB in the picture, the ease to rent to visitors at three to five times the residential rental rate changes the investor's rate of return to 12% to 20%.  Much better than any investment on the market today.  Banks give you 0.5% on certificates of deposits.  Insurance annuities are lucky to get 4% or 5%.  

The only price the community pays is that there is no longer any affordable housing for local people. Homelessness becomes a normal status for the working poor.  So blaming the military is a sham argument. Yes, they make it harder, but don't destroy the housing market as AIRBNB is.  AIRBNB is to local housing, as HEP A is to poki.  Local folks are the only ones to pay the price.