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Personally I'd rather them devastate Airbnb. Uber and Lyft haven't caused the car market to price people out of corollas and camrys. I know it's a tongue in che
by post_break 7y ago
Personally I'd rather them devastate Airbnb. Uber and Lyft haven't caused the car market to price people out of corollas and camrys. I know it's a tongue in cheek comment but driving for uber or lyft is a choice, the housing market getting turned into hotel development isn't for a lot of people.
- ImprovedSilence 7y agoYeah, this is so much truth. It happens more than in big cities too. It's driving up home prices in smaller college towns, for football, graduations, and old people tourism, and it can really put a crunch on supply for people who actually need to live there.
- conanbatt 7y agoWhat's driving housing prices up are bad city/state level policies, not airbnb. Airbnb makes housing more effective, by housing more people for longer periods of time. Housing utilization goes up with Airbnb, not down.
- Skunkleton 7y agoI have left my house empty every time I have stayed in an AirBnB. Anecdotal? Sure, but I am not the only one.
- conanbatt 7y agoBut the other side hasn't, so in your case its 50% increase in utilization (1/2 parties uses Airbnb). If you had use Airbnb, it would have been 2 more houses per 2 vacation trips.
- Skunkleton 7y agoMost of the time I end up in a spare room, or in a property specially bought to rent out as an AirBnB. Neither of these help with housing shortages.