The star Advertiser is wrong in it's assumption that transient vacation rentals should be taxed as a hotel. No one has established that as a requirement. 

Clearly transient vacation rentals are different from hotel and are more like a short term rental. So in my opinion it should be taxed as a special kind of rental. It should not be taxed like a hotel.

Let's continue to let the legislature figure it out. And let's not conflate the residential housing problem with rentals for Transient Accommodations. 

If we need more residential housing, then let's build it. 

I think Ige is right to go ahead with collecting the tax on rentals. He's waited long enough  for the legislature  to figure out something.  It's an election year. Airbnb software is constrained for certain types of transactions and cannot be asked to do what it cannot do. We need to do what is possible to do and save any wazoo ideas of regulation to the time when we can integrate all the state and city databases with AirBnB.