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The majority of AirBnB hosts are individuals just trying to make some extra money. The lobbyies are claiming these units prevent the homeless from finding homes
by lbenes 10y ago
The majority of AirBnB hosts are individuals just trying to make some extra money. The lobbyies are claiming these units prevent the homeless from finding homes. How about the people that avoid becoming homeless by AirBnB'ing one of their rooms?
The hypocrisy in this situation is mind blowing. Thanks to Citizen's United, corporates are protected and allowed unlimited money for lobbying as “Freedom of Speech”. But when the individual wants to advertise a room in their private home, the government censors that speech?
This is just another example of how our Democracy has been hijacked by lobbyists. Neither Clinton, nor Trump, not even Bernie Sanders could cleanse this rot from our democracy. The only way I see for us to take it back is with a Constitutional Amendment ending this legalized bribery. The group that's making the most progress towards this goal is Wolf-PAC. You can read more about it and help with the cause here:
http://www.wolf-pac.com/the_plan http://www.wolf-pac.com/the_plan
- Tiktaalik 10y ago> How about the people that avoid becoming homeless by AirBnB'ing one of their rooms? Actual home sharing, that is, renting an extra room in your residence, is still allowed. This legislation doesn't touch that. The target of this legislation is people who were creating businesses by buying condos purely to permanently rent on Airbnb.
- bsder 10y ago> The majority of AirBnB hosts are individuals just trying to make some extra money. Perhaps that's true, but AirBnB made a point to not share the data so people could figure that out. In addition, while the number of rental properties is probably dominated by individuals, the number of days rented is probably dominated by the professional AirBnB hosts.