1. Airbnb is not banned in Berlin. You can check that by searching for stays in the app.

2. The article linked to Airbnb's responsibility of growing prices indicates that most of that increase is due to population growth, income, and employment rates.

3. Erosion of tax base due to growth of tourism is something highly touristic cities would love to look into. Spoiler: cities got even more income as tourists are naturally willing to spend more.

4. Uber has such significant percentage of traffic that linked report calls out private vehicles as the true culprits in overall traffic congestion, accounting for 87 to 99 percent of total VMT in the analyzed regions.

5. Uber being bad contradicts with the fact that there is no undeclared income by drivers and the service is more safe than usual taxi due to rating and control systems. Being raped during overpriced taxi ride is not something anyone would like to experience.

6. As mentioned in the comments here, these so-called "issues" are not the result of designers' work. Airbnb was born out of ineffectiveness of hotel concept, and people being ready to sacrifice comfort for cheaper pricing. Uber was born as a solution for overpriced and dangerous nature of regular taxi concept. The big bad capitalism solves issues and answers to demand, all of which less flexible and traditional approach of collapsing businesses failed to provide. It's very expensive to ignore, and I'm not sure whether such critique validates real life spending more on unneeded whistles and bells during trips abroad, or commuting via shady taxi services.