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Have you thought about how the things you like out of AirBnB come at the expense of those things for actual residents of the city? Each home that's in AirBnB is
by dorchadas 5y ago
Have you thought about how the things you like out of AirBnB come at the expense of those things for actual residents of the city? Each home that's in AirBnB is one that's not on the long term market for locals, pushing them further and further out for tourists' convenience.
- AnimalMuppet 5y agoBy the same logic, every hotel is a big building that's not an apartment building. But travelers have to stay somewhere...
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- RcouF1uZ4gsC 5y ago> By the same logic, every hotel is a big building that's not an apartment building. Many times Hotels are located in areas that are zoned commercial and not residential. So no, hotels really are not competing with housing the way AirBnb is.
- AnimalMuppet 5y agoOK, but apartment buildings can be in areas that are zoned commercial too... (Unless they're zoned exclusively commercial - but I don't know how common that is.)
- jjeaff 5y agoIf locals really cared about affordable housing, they would loosen up those zoning laws because that is the real reason most areas don't have affordable housing, not Airbnb.
- dorchadas 5y agoNo, because hotels don't remove existing supply from the market like AirBnB does. Nor at the rate that AirBnB is. It's not like the AirBnB owners are just making all newly built houses into AirBnB, they're actively lowering the supply already in the area, which hotels don't do.