The AirBnB shit in particular has become a pestilence. And hoo boy is it also alive and well outside of the US. Where I live in Amsterdam practically all of the affordable apartments around us have been bought up and turned into AirBnBs which has had a knock-on effect of raising our rent annually by the maximum allowed under law because the owner of the building also wants to cash in but can't just kick us out due to existing renter laws. The only reason we can afford to stay here is because my wife has lived here practically all of her life and so the rent control laws keep us just this side of destitute which is fortuitous because otherwise we wouldn't be able to afford living pretty much anywhere else either.
I can only imagine it's at least 10 times worse in the States with fewer renter protections.