Thousands of Airbnbs and other short-term rentals are expected to disappear from rental platforms as New York City begins enforcing tight restrictions.
  • fracture [he/him] @beehaw.org
    17·
    1 year ago

    idk this story really wants to paint the duplex lady as sympathetic, but she’s living the high life to have an entire separate house attached to hers to do what she pleases with. i don’t really feel bad that she can’t make money off airbnb with it, she can still exploit people make money off it by having long term tenants. you know, like she wasn’t just arbitrarily taking an entire housing situation off the market. sure, she’s not as much of a problem as big corpos making bank on airbnb, but i fully feel like she’s more in that category than not

    i’m open to hearing other opinions on this, though. i’ve never lived in a duplex. maybe they’re really intimate with consideration to the other people living there? but from my view, this seems just like someone who owns two apartments and is now upset they can’t get their airbnb slice of the pie for the other one

  • dumples@kbin.social
    7·
    1 year ago

    I feel like this is a little overcompensation to the problem but it’s better to start that way. The professional Airbnb landlord with multiple properties needs to be shut down but I feel like the more casual user should be allowed. If it’s half of a duplex seems fine but multiple properties not so much. They take up so much housing.

    I have done Airbnb for a long time and it’s definitely getting worse but it’s better in Europe than the US. I’m sure the regulations are a part of this

    • Very_Bad_Janet@kbin.social
      2·
      1 year ago

      I’m in agreement. Go after the amateur hotel LLC landlords and allow the occasional Airbnb-ers. Maybe the city chose the route, though, because it is harder to distinguish between the two in a simple way.

      The people I know who do short term rentals only rent out their homes when they are out of town (e.g., one friend works in the arts and this allows her to travel for work abroad; my neighbors, also artists, do this a couple times a year so that their family can go on vacation). I think this will hurt the little guys. I think the people I know might end up doing home swaps (swapping their house or apartment for free) - which would still mean strangers in their home that neighbors might have to interact or deal with, but not covered by this policy.

      • dumples@kbin.social
        2·
        1 year ago

        Also I feel for regulations like this its better to do too much and then make exceptions for the small guy afterwards.

    • LoamImprovement@beehaw.org
      23·
      1 year ago

      Honestly, if they did? More power to them. I’m tired of good houses being tied up as overpriced vacation rentals, where you have to clean the damn thing out to exacting specifications and still pay a fucking cleaning fee. We could only be so lucky, that maybe private investors will go after Blackrock in a class action for trying to monopolize investment housing or some shit. Let the greedy eat each other.

        • And009@reddthat.com
          1·
          1 year ago

          We love airbnb in India. Hopefully owners don’t get too greedy and turn into this. Even my properties are expected to get dirty and being cleaned up by a housekeeping person.

          Unless a guest breaks or steals anything there’s no problem. The issue is airbnb doesn’t protect us from any of the damages. And asking a deposit puts people off, there’s enough cheap competition in the area I guess.

          • T (they/she)@beehaw.org
            3·
            1 year ago

            Don’t get me wrong, I used to love them. Until I realized they got too expensive + the fact we’re in the middle of a housing crisis and many houses are now short term rentals, which doesn’t help things

    • sim_@beehaw.orgEnglish
      23·
      1 year ago

      Hotels aren’t the only ones who stand to benefit from codes such as these. NYC’s may have been overly harsh, but more cities should be looking to clamp down on housing being sucked out of the local market by big money interests.