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

• 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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      • NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        offer a decent rent length.

        They don’t take that risk.

        In my city, most of the singles actually keep their own appartments when moving in with a new loved one. It isn’t because of the money, it is their safety net so they can move back eventually. Very few of these appartments are actually rented out. Most are just empty.

        And of course they would not want to wait for a year or so.

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