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New Yorker here. Short-term rentals and Airbnb in particular have had a noticeable negative impact on my downtown Manhattan neighborhood, although I'm not talki
by pyrophane 11y ago
New Yorker here. Short-term rentals and Airbnb in particular have had a noticeable negative impact on my downtown Manhattan neighborhood, although I'm not talking about rent. Everyone I know now has stories about "guests" who let anyone and everyone into the building, damage common areas, and make noise all night long, because really, what do they care? They are on vacation. They are here to party, and then they are gone forever.
Apartments are designed for long-term residents. Why should we even consider allowing them to become budget hotels?
- Futurebot 11y agoSame here. Life-long native New Yorker, and I've never seen anything like it. My building has many AirBnB guests (my floor alone has 2 apartments that have different guests all the time.) Overall it doesn't impact my personal experience, since the neighborhood I live in is fairly noisy already (LES) and I don't really care unless they blast music. That all said, I think there are things that AirBnB can do to mitigate all this: standards enforcement division. A 24-hour service where you call them up, make your complaint, and they send over some big scary people to knock on the offender's door and ask them to "turn it down" or "pick up their garbage." Local government offices and the landlords themselves can't respond quickly enough (the former can't/won't send someone there at 2AM and it'd be pretty tough to get the latter to run over to your apartment for this sort of thing.) Basically AirBnB police. There are steps that can be taken that don't involve the local government or housing authority; I think AirBnB would be wise to take them.