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There are many ways! The ones used by myself, my friends, and my family when moving to The Big City and looking for a job/permanent housing included: 1. Co
by saalweachter 10y ago
There are many ways! The ones used by myself, my friends, and my family when moving to The Big City and looking for a job/permanent housing included:
1. Couch surfing with friends/family.
2. Youth hostels / YMCA.
3. Renting a terrible apartment cheap, sight-unseen,
breaking the lease early when better options became
available.
4. The Daughters of Divine Charity, et al, run boarding
houses.
5. Rent a place in the outer boroughs, Jersey, Yonkers,
etc, take the train in until you find something
closer.
6. Walk around until you see "room for rent" signs.
7. Check papers, Craiglist for roommates (*actual* room
sharing -- a number of people I know started off
renting a *bed*, not even a bed*room*.)
- ng12 10y agoOk, I wasn't being entirely literal. The point is AirBnB was just about the only way to find safe, convenient, relatively affordable housing for a few weeks. And it's probably going to get worse now given that this legislation applies to services like Craigslist as well.
- busterarm 10y agoAnd I think the point that people are trying to make is that your convenience may be coming at the expense of others.
- braveo 10y agoand the question is how?
- ng12 10y agoI think that's a false assumption. Is AirBnB really the bottleneck for NYC rents?
- busterarm 10y agoAirBNB units make up 1/5 of 1% of the NYC's rental units. A bottleneck? no, but sizable and impactful, especially when you consider that these tend to be clustered around where they're convenient.
- ng12 10y ago> where they're convenient Convenient is not the right description -- high demand is. Who's to say an AirBnB is a worse use of space for, say, a unit in SoHo than a year-round resident? AirBnB has real issues -- zoning, hotel tax, safety, etc -- but politicians like to use rent cost/resident displacement because it's an easy rallying call.
- xenihn 10y ago>a number of people I know started off renting a bed, not even a bedroom Was it worth it?
- saalweachter 10y agoEh, I don't know that most of the people I knew who sublet half a bedroom would ask themselves that question. Subletting half a bedroom from a total stranger can be inconvenient and occasionally weird but if you're fresh out of college it's not really that different from the dorm room experience for most people. And it usually costs less than half what an apartment does a month, and is usually month to month or so.
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- morgante 10y agoI feel like you proved his point for him. All of these are insanely uncomfortable and poor options.