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It's mainly to protect Hotels, bed-taxes, etc.

by gedy 6y ago

reaperducer 6y ago
It's mainly to protect Hotels, bed-taxes, etc. No, it's mainly to protect residents. The people who actually make a city a city. If you're looking for greed and cash, look to the Airbnb companies that operate hundreds or thousands of rentals. Hotels are zoned into commercial areas so that they don't ruin residential areas. Airbnb flouts that. There are places in Chicago where corporations that own fleets of Airbnb buildings bought up half the residential properties on a single block and turned them into Airbnb rentals. It destroyed the quality of life for the people who have put all of their money and time into the neighborhood.
- dannyw 6y ago
  This actually reminds me of big miners eating small miners when it came to mining cryptocurrency. We used to have arguments about whether bitcoin is valuable if everyone didn’t have a chance to mine. I guess such is capitalism.
- mytailorisrich 6y ago
  Hotels are not "zoned on commercial areas" in central Paris. It's highly mixed. The problem is really for residents of a single building when that building is pretty much turned into a hotel with people coming and going all the time because of AirBnb flats. There is an element of truth, though, in claiming that hotels do not like the competition from AirBnb. Case in point, tourists love AirBnb. The fundamental force at play in a place like Paris is the many millions of people who want to visit every year.
- gedy 6y ago
  This is not a pro-AirBnB comment, I'm just pointing out gov't probably cares more about the money from hotels than "protecting residents". Same with Uber and Taxi/Transit.
hocuspocus 6y ago
If you live in a touristic city, it's not the main reason, no... But even if it were, how's that supposed to be an argument in favor of AirBnB? Of course residents want tourists and visitors to stay in hotels or serviced apartments, and the city to collect taxes.

It's mainly to protect Hotels, bed-taxes, etc.

by gedy 6y ago

It's mainly to protect Hotels, bed-taxes, etc.

It's mainly to protect Hotels, bed-taxes, etc. No, it's mainly to protect residents. The people who actually make a city a city. If you're looking for greed and cash, look to the Airbnb companies that operate hundreds or thousands of rentals. Hotels are zoned into commercial areas so that they don't ruin residential areas. Airbnb flouts that. There are places in Chicago where corporations that own fleets of Airbnb buildings bought up half the residential properties on a single block and turned them into Airbnb rentals. It destroyed the quality of life for the people who have put all of their money and time into the neighborhood.

dannyw 6y ago
This actually reminds me of big miners eating small miners when it came to mining cryptocurrency. We used to have arguments about whether bitcoin is valuable if everyone didn’t have a chance to mine. I guess such is capitalism.
mytailorisrich 6y ago
Hotels are not "zoned on commercial areas" in central Paris. It's highly mixed. The problem is really for residents of a single building when that building is pretty much turned into a hotel with people coming and going all the time because of AirBnb flats. There is an element of truth, though, in claiming that hotels do not like the competition from AirBnb. Case in point, tourists love AirBnb. The fundamental force at play in a place like Paris is the many millions of people who want to visit every year.
gedy 6y ago
This is not a pro-AirBnB comment, I'm just pointing out gov't probably cares more about the money from hotels than "protecting residents". Same with Uber and Taxi/Transit.

hocuspocus 6y ago

If you live in a touristic city, it's not the main reason, no... But even if it were, how's that supposed to be an argument in favor of AirBnB? Of course residents want tourists and visitors to stay in hotels or serviced apartments, and the city to collect taxes.