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Is it really right to equate a tourist's interest in accommodation with a resident's interest in a strong community?
by lgessler 5y ago
Is it really right to equate a tourist's interest in accommodation with a resident's interest in a strong community?
- onlyrealcuzzo 5y agoOr a person's interest to have the means to be a part of production without spending their entire life commuting? I'm sorry - I don't think we should build a million skyscrapers in Kethum, Idaho and Jackson Hole, Wyoming so that tourists can enjoy it more cheaply. I do think we should build more housing in major cities.
- closeparen 5y agoI’m not sure what exactly you mean by “strong community” here, but that is a phrase often invoked for nativist and exclusionary impulses which I would rate as quite a bit less legitimate than a desire to see the world.
- visarga 5y agoYeah, like, residents never travel. Tourists come from Mars. /s Why ban just AirBnB and not Waze for bringing unwanted traffic in previously quiet neighborhoods?
- kelnos 5y agoWhere's the threshold of badness here, though? Sure, if 75% of residential units are up for short term rental, it's gonna be really hard for the remaining residents to form a strong community. But if it's more like 5%, or even 10%[0], is that really a big detriment to a "strong community"? That just seems like an easy "no" to me. [0] And I would expect those units to not be evenly distributed around a city; there will probably be higher concentrations in the more touristy spots where this community stuff matters less, and lower concentrations in the more "sleepy" residential areas.