Amsterdam trials algorithm to track down illegal holiday lets

Amsterdam city officials have been given the green light to experiment with using algorithms to track down people illegally renting out their homes via platforms such as Airbnb. The move, backed by the council’s executive board on Tuesday night, is ‘the beginning of a new initiative’, said Marnix Bolkestein, head of the city’s housing supervision department in the Volkskrant. ‘Hopefully this will mean we need less manpower to find suspicious homes and there will be more time to send in... More >