Input: Airbnb will Remove Illegal Hotels from San Francisco Listings
In a conciliatory gesture to lawmakers and residents, Airbnb will begin identifying and removing hosts who are breaking the law in San Francisco. The users it’s targeting are those who maintain multiple listings but are not licensed hotel operators, which according to SFGate amounts to 7% of listings and 17% of host revenue in the city.

San Francisco MTA Kicks Tech Shuttles to the Curb

Airbnb originated as a platform for private homeowners to rent out an extra bedroom, or let someone use their apartment while they were away. But its success has attracted more and more commercial operators, including some who buy properties for the exclusive purpose of renting them out on Airbnb.

In many cases, that’s illegal—aside from hotels, San Francisco only allows permanent residents offering their own home to rent to short-term visitors. And with San Francisco in the midst of a housing crisis that is both comical and tragic, Airbnb has been accused of adding even more pressure to the market. The company has lobbied extensively against laws that would have restricted its operations, and its new steps towards internal due diligence may help stave off harsher regulations in the future.

For more on Airbnb learning to play nice, watch our video.

This doesn’t mean no commercial operations will be listed on Airbnb, though—within San Francisco, the site also hosts listings from hundreds of licensed hotels.
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It's about: After resisting regulation, the company will police itself.

Q: Bobby Brown Admits Hitting Whitney Houston, Details Couple's Drug Usage : People.com

says that while he once hit

, he is not "a violent man."

Speaking of an incident he details in his upcoming memoir,

, out June 13, Brown told

that he struck Houston during a time while he was "trying to maintain sobriety."

Brown charged that reports of him being a "woman beater" or overall "violent toward her," however, are "just lies."

"I've never been a violent man toward a woman ever," Brown said.

The 47-year-old was married to Houston, who

. In 2003, Brown was

with misdemeanor battery related to alleged domestic violence. Houston had asserted to

years earlier, though, "I do the hitting."

In addition to a volatile romance, which ended in 2006 when Houston filed for divorce, Brown said that he and the pop star had devolved into a pattern of

. Brown and Houston would lock themselves in one wing of their mansion, getting high while nannies cared for their daughter

"I always made it a point to not let her see me or my wife in that type of situation," he insisted, though. "It's hard when you're doing it everyday, it's really hard."

In his book, according to

, Brown cites cocaine, alcohol and crack-laced joints as his substances of choice.

"The last few years of our marriage it was terrible," he explained. "Both of us trying to be clean, or one of us trying to be clean... it was terrible."

Of involving Bobbi Kristina, Brown

, "We could have been better. We should have been better."

, also slammed longtime rumors that it was he who led Houston to drug abuse. "It wasn't me who started her," Brown said. "I take my part and I take it hard for me even being a part of it, but we all have our own minds and some of us are stronger than others."

The musician also opened up about losing Bobbi Kristina, who

, six months after she was found

The singer implicated Nick Gordon in the deaths of both his ex-wife and their daughter. Something that Gordon's attorney

that his daughter was set to relocate to Los Angeles to live closer to him just two days before the incident.

"The two days before what happened to my daughter, she was to come out here to Los Angeles to me," Brown said, fighting back tears. "If I could get those two days back... my daughter would be here. All I want is those two days back."

While he hasn't yet visited Houston and Bobbi Kristina's graves, Brown said, "They're with me, they're here."

A close relative of Brown

ahead of Tuesday night that while Brown has "made a lot of serious mistakes," he " is spending the rest of his life making good choices and leading his family in the right way."

In another part of the interview,

for her hand in marriage.

"I definitely asked him before... he wanted to see how much money I had in my bank account," Brown said. "I had way more money, more cash than she did."

Brown is now married to

A:
Bobby Brown told Robin Roberts in a 20/20 interview that while he has "never been a violent man," he once hit wife Whitney Houston