A paid registration system should be established in South Australia to track short-stay accommodation, according to a parliamentary inquiry into the impact of the system on the housing and rental crisis.

A South Australian parliamentary select committee found the short-stay accommodation sector has played a role in the rental affordability crisis, but it was difficult to determine to what extent.

Committee chairperson and Greens MLC Robert Simms said the committee believed a registration scheme could help determine the sector's impact.

"As a first step we want to have a registration scheme so that we can get to the bottom of exactly how many properties are in play here," he told ABC Radio Adelaide.

"And of course the correlation of how many properties are listed on Airbnb, versus those

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