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Yes, but if AirBnB were to shut down tomorrow, it would take a while for any of them to get back to the same critical mass. Yes, AirBnB is only a symptom, but i
by dorchadas 5y ago
Yes, but if AirBnB were to shut down tomorrow, it would take a while for any of them to get back to the same critical mass. Yes, AirBnB is only a symptom, but if it's gone it does get better, at least for a little while.
- zamfi 5y agoSure, but why would you rather play whack-a-mole than get lasting change? If you want an actual lasting change in how housing is created and allocated, you need regulation with teeth around the behavior you want to actually alter. Or incentives that do the same thing (often regulatory). Shutting down large public companies with many stakeholders who benefit is both harder and only gets what you want a little bit and only for a little while.
- dorchadas 5y agoIt's not an either-or thing, that's the thing. You can get more regulations (the 'with teeth' being the key part as in many major cities AirBnB hosts short term rentals that are illegally on the short term market) and want the company shut down too. It also doesn't help that AirBnB doesn't do anything to help countries in terms of finding these illegal letters, or in taxes (this might have changed, but I know it used to be an issue in Ireland where AirBnB didn't collect the taxes and it was up to the owner to pay, with expected results), yet loves to take advantage of them.