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>On the other hand I completely understand when people are annoyed about party folk living in the flat above them or when they lack safety regulations or don't
by parthdesai 8y ago
>On the other hand I completely understand when people are annoyed about party folk living in the flat above them or when they lack safety regulations or don't pay the same taxes hotels do.
Or creating a shortage of supply for actual people looking to rent in the cities desirable areas, which results in increase of rent. That's the biggest one imo.
- munk-a 8y agoThey do have some effect on pricing, sure, but there is a much larger culprit in local zoning practices at work when it comes to housing affordability.
- parthdesai 8y agoI'm not talking about only SF though.
- munk-a 8y agoOverly aggressive zoning isn't an issue specific to SF, it is much more hilariously stupid there, but people living near or within cities in detached houses elsewhere lobby continuously against higher density and public transit to try and keep their neighborhood the quiet one. I'm up in Vancouver and we've got some really strong NIMBY idiots here that are fighting tooth and nail against expanding the skytrain so that it actually services the universities while fighting against density increases in Kitsilano which, honestly, is basically a part of downtown now. Stupid people are abundant everywhere.