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My take, after living in NYC Airbnbs for around a year, is the effects are most dramatic in non-white areas. And it's not lower income people who are renting t
by camgunz 9y ago
My take, after living in NYC Airbnbs for around a year, is the effects are most dramatic in non-white areas. And it's not lower income people who are renting their place out on Airbnb; it's typically commercial renters and hipsters/professionals looking to supplement their income. So it certainly feels like the main effect is to accelerate gentrification.
- throwaway_80bf3 9y agoAfter living there for 10 years I moved on from NYC at the end of last year. My last apartment was in a neighborhood in Brooklyn that is still heavily African American but will probably look significantly different in 5 year. The number of European tourists that just show up and come and go on the subway platform there was wild. I have lived in post-gentrification neighborhoods mostly and had not seen anything like this. The only reasonable explanation was AirBnB.