Comment on New York’s Airbnb Ban Is Descending Into Pure Chaos

NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  A spare apartment, you say? Do people just have those lying around?

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  • beeng@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yes, they move to a bigger one and rent out their old one for profit.

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    • AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      And, of course, it would be morally unacceptable to get in the way of them maximising the profits they’re entitled to, such as by forcing them to rent it out long-term to some poors rather than allowing them to run an unregulated hotel room, because invisible hand of the free market or something.

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    • Qwaffle_waffle@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Ah yes, the old hermit crab monopoly.

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    • NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Or they move in with their period-of-life partners, and then maybe eventually back.

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      • beeng@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Fine, but don’t profit and offer a decent rent length.

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• stealth_cookies@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That they would return it to the pool of long term rentals and help drive rent rates down. That or drove them to sell to someone that wants to live there.

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• gian@lemmy.grys.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Probably.
  A similar approach is under discussion even where I live and everyone seems to think that forbidding the “short rent” (as it is called here) will magically put all these apartament on the market for “long rent”, lowering the prices.

  Until it is not understood that (well, at least here) AirBnB is not the cause but the result the problem will never be solved.

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