Tornado Alley (PROG)

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Reared in the countercultural chaos of the ‘60s and sculpted by the New Age spirituality of the ‘80s, Kitty is as unique as the property she rents.

She regaled me with tales about alchemic substances, spirit channeling, and the night her activist mother once spent in a jail cell with the singer-songwriter, Joan Baez.

We talked about the immortal Indian yogi, Babaji, ‘70s rock band Supertramp, and Mellen-Thomas Benedict, a man who supposedly died and came back to life in 1982.

At some point during the conversation, it struck me that Kitty — not just the dome — is integral to the listing’s popularity.

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She is well aware of the controversies surrounding Airbnb. The platform has been derided for having a detrimental impact on housing stock, rising rent and home prices, and gentrification.

But there is a difference, she says, between renting out a remote cabin in the woods and snatching up a property in a housing-starved urban neighborhood solely for use as a vacation rental.