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I'm glad you're housing secure with a guest room, it must be nice.
Some people would kill for a full furnished basement and instead of being rented out short term it could be housing someone instead and leave the short term to hotels.
I really don't understand why this is such a controversial view.
I wouldn't want someone living in my basement full time. I have no obligation to make that basement available to live in wtf kinda bullshit is this.
Uh, no one said that, dude.
Then don't rent it out?
In this specific instance, I suspect it is because there is every indication that the basement room rented by OP was not, in fact, a fully self contained suite within a house, but was a guest room.
How do you physically get into these "basement suites" in your part of the world? When I lived in a townhouse, access to the cellar was via a door in the middle of the property leading off the kitchen. There would be no practical way to split the cellar off from the main property as a separate dwelling. But having guests sleep down there every so often was no big deal.
Some are walk out basements and have their own ground level entry, some are a separate door and other are a door in the middle of shared living space.
Interesting. Here, when conversions happen to make cellars into self-contained units, I'd argue they are frequently only suitable for short term lets, on the basis that no-one should have to live like that. In converting properties whose lower ground floors were never meant to be used for residential purposes into housing, we get stuff like this.
Rental Opportunity of the Week: A Remodelled Crypt, for Goths Your own windowless basement in London Bridge, for just £2,000 a month.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/akz9ze/rental-opportunity-london-bridge-basement
It's brutal but what if you have a choice of that or being homeless?
Now if that's being used as a hotel and your only choice left is to be homeless?
There's so many more problems then just airbnb but it's not helping either.
It goes for £2000 a month ($2500) and is in Zone 1, a 25 minute stroll from the London Stock Exchange. You aren't going homeless if you have £2000 a month to spend on rent, and Zone 2 is one stop away on the Jubilee line. You're moving to Zone 2/3, or moving into a flatshare. Or out of London.
Given the location, pricing and finish I suspect it's more likely to be used as a pied a terre -- a second (weekday) home -- for someone in the City.
Is that a house you live in during the week so you don't have to commute from your primary house?
Correct. Well, not all the work week. One person will sleep in it Monday-Thursday. Maybe Friday if it's a heavy one.
ETA: Rest of the family will be living in a separate house outside the Home Counties where the schools are better.