A shooting at a property rented through Airbnb in Pittsburgh on New Year’s Day has reignited calls for regulation on short-term rentals in the city.
Police were called around 12:30 a.m. to the area of Constance Street on the city’s North Side on Jan. 1 for a reported shooting. At the scene, officers found a woman inside a home who had been shot in the leg. Sources told KDKA it’s believed a large group of juveniles was at a house party across the street, and that home was rented through Airbnb. Gunfire erupted, and the woman across the street was shot when bullets went through her home, sources said.
It’s the second shooting at an Airbnb in Pittsburgh in under four years. On Easter Sunday in 2022, two people were killed and 10 were injured in a mass shooting at an Airbnb rental property, where police said about 200 people, many of them underage, were at a party when gunfire erupted…