(Note: not taking a position in this post, just describing both positions.)<p>Many people unhappy with AirBnB want to portray AirBnB as primarily a means for large-scale commercial landlords to circumvent regulations on hotels, renting, or subletting; such a depiction makes it easier to argue for more regulation.  A large number of people posting multiple &quot;entire home&quot; listings would lend support to that depiction.<p>AirBnB wants to portray themselves as primarily letting individual people rent out their own property or rooms; such a depiction makes it easier to argue against existing or additional regulations.  A large number of people posting only a single &quot;entire home&quot; listing, or listings of individual rooms in a home, would lend support to that depiction.<p>The site linked here claims that AirBnB removed many &quot;entire home&quot; listings from their site right before producing a report, and that the removed listings disproportionately reduced the number of listings by people with more than one &quot;entire home&quot; listing.  The linked site further claims that those removals only occurred in NYC, and the graph suggests that the proportion immediately started growing again after the removals and subsequent report.