New York’s Airbnb Ban Is Descending Into Pure Chaos

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• honey_im_meat_grinding@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Make sure you keep in mind that Conde Nast (the parent company of Wired) has subsidiary companies running articles like “35 Best Airbnbs Near New York City, From Cozy Cabins in the Catskills to Beachy Houses in the Hamptons”[1]. They likely have indirect or direct financial ties to AirBnB.

  So this article that is seemingly trying to present an argument that this regulation isn’t working because a black market has emerged, while giving more space in the article to small landlords and AirBnB’s CEO and their defence than to critics of AirBnB, as well as mentioning hotel prices rising but not how AirBnB has caused rental prices to rise… should give you pause about the bias this article is trying to hide.

  [1] cntraveler.com/…/best-airbnbs-near-new-york-city

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  • SinningStromgald@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Conde Nast ruined Wired.

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    • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They also own reddit.

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  • CluelessLemmyng@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I figured as much. Without an open and easy to advertise platform to rent out spaces, people are going back to how it used to be…

    It’s an alarmist article. Much ado about nothing.

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  • AnyProgressIsGood@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Great catch

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  • DaMonsterKnees@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    JD POWER AND ASSOCIATES SAID BUY OUR SHIT, IT’S THE BEST!

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• Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The headline is alarmist nonsense that is absolutely not supported by the facts presented. There are no numbers given for how many rentals are being listed on alternate sources. The numbers for listings marked as exempt on AirBNB certainly suggest that the ban is working exactly as intended. Yes, hotel prices will go up, obviously. That’s not something that anyone is surprised to hear. The rest is just anecdote presented as data. There’s no “chaos” here, just life being life.

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• Tosti@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Seems like a group of contracteren that are hired to find these rentals will pay for itself in fine revenue.

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  • jet@hackertalks.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Heck. Let people submit tips with proof, and split the fines with the reporters.

    Then the short-term renters own customers will report the rental when they’re done. And then get money. Crowdsource the snitching

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    • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Not the US, but my city actually started a snitch e-mail address.

      Stuff like airbnb now need a permission, and if you suspect an address has an unlicenced one, you can ask them and they will actually tell you if it’s an allowed listing.

      Reported two of them, one was allowed, another one “will be checked”. Not sure what happened to the latter

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  • mosiacmango@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Hell book the suites and dont pay. If they have an issue, they can get into contact with new yorks regulatory body.

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• skymtf@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s so funny watching skumlords scramble!

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• NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What did they expect?

  All the people who are renting out some spare appartment should suddenly stop it and move in themselves again? ;-)

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  • 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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  • 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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• klingelstreich@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It is paywalled

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  • Jakdracula@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You can pretty much put any article into archive.ph and it gets past the paywalls.

    Go to: archive.ph

    Paste in the url: wired.com/…/airbnb-ban-new-york-illegal-listings/

    Hit “save” and get: archive.ph/ship1

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    • friend_of_satan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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