AirBNB is having a big impact on the local housing markets. Companies like this one are making long term housing so precious that building codes are being changed to allow construction of new units without any provision for parking. Pretty soon FamilyMan will have no place to park his cows because AirBNB will have leased out his barn to tourists in the Okanogan.

So now the hotels are starting to notice and they are creating their own link to residential rentals. They have the ability to offer everything that AirBNB does except they also have the extra option of being able to offer hotels with restaurants etc. The battle will come down between Wall Street Investors (who buy up all the residential listings) Hilton-Marriott Hotel Services.

City Government will get into the business of UBER. All you have to own is an algorithm in order to set up i-phone based transportation scheduling, particularly when you will have self-driving cars and won't have to manage whiny ass millennials. The City governments have a natural resource advantage in that they own the downtown city streets. The bottleneck in the self-driving car congo line will be congestion on the downtown streets as the UBER concept only has self-driving cars. Until they have self-loading and self-ejecting customer there will always be an opportunity to rent the loading zone for $1 per pick up or drop off.

Ayn Rand would, of course, say that the government can't do anything right. They are, however, very good at taxing things.
They could use this talent to create quite a good business model for themselves.

UBER will complain, of course, but this is when Ayn Rand steps in to explain that life isn't fair.

Could be worse, the government could decide to house the homeless in the empty bedroom vacated by your kid that moved away to college :=)

As long as we are talking about poor (ous?) solutions we could recycle all those privately owned UBER vehicles.

They could be used as part of Trump's campaign to make America great again.

The apprenticeship programs could teach millennials to weld these cars into hotels that double as walls to keep miscreants out of our country.

The hotels could be managed by AirBNB.
The now redundant drivers that used to cover their mortgage by schlepping tourists around town might object but they are poor and don't matter anyway.

We get a wall, an apprenticeship program, Wall Street gets another investment vehicle and more housing is created for those people put out on the street when they no longer have health insurance (sung to the tune of Goldman Sachs TV commercial about what wonderful things they do to us.)

Bring back Drop City!!

Or Soleri's Arcosanti!

The hippies had it right all along.

Drop City Wikipedia