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Tokyo seems to have solved this by building houses and transportation right? What's preventing other governments from duplicating this? Politics? If so what was

Tokyo seems to have solved this by building houses and transportation right? What's preventing other governments from duplicating this? Politics? If so what was unique about Tokyo?

bobthepanda 4y ago
* transportation: the outlays of programs like Five Commuting directions in Tokyo was a direct contributor to the collapse of JNR, which led to the government assuming all JNR debt and privatizing the railways as JR Group * housing production in Tokyo is great, but to put this in context today's Japanese housing market essentially happened after the bubble pop in the '90s. Prices from 1991 to 2004 had declined by 64% due to the pop. In that context, deregulation was palatable because people were already underwater and didn't bother as much to fight things that would lower property values. (In fact, it could've raised them.)
kranke155 4y ago
Tokyo also bans Airbnb, period. Something most people here don’t understand.
- capableweb 4y ago
  So Airbnb is facilitating illegal renting of properties? https://www.airbnb.com/s/Tokyo--Japan/homes?adults=2&refinement_paths%5B%5D=%2Fhomes&checkin=2022-10-01&checkout=2022-10-08&tab_id=home_tab&query=Tokyo%2C%20Japan&flexible_trip_lengths%5B%5D=one_week&price_filter_num_nights=30&search_type=autocomplete_click&place_id=ChIJ51cu8IcbXWARiRtXIothAS4&date_picker_type=calendar&source=structured_search_input_header https://www.airbnb.com/s/Tokyo--Japan/homes?adults=2&refinem... Why wouldn't the government crack down on this?
  - kranke155 4y ago
    Sorry as the poster above has said they’ve been legal since 2018. I had inaccurate out of date information.
- thematrixturtle 4y ago
  Japan (including Tokyo) legalized short-term rentals (minpaku) in 2018. However, there are reasonably toothy licensing requirements and you're capped at 180 days per year.
gfdsgfdsf 4y ago
japan has pretty much 0 immigration and 0 population growth
mistermann 4y ago
> If so what was unique about Tokyo? Japanese culture would be my guess.

Tokyo seems to have solved this by building houses and transportation right? What's preventing other governments from duplicating this? Politics? If so what was unique about Tokyo?

bobthepanda 4y ago

* transportation: the outlays of programs like Five Commuting directions in Tokyo was a direct contributor to the collapse of JNR, which led to the government assuming all JNR debt and privatizing the railways as JR Group * housing production in Tokyo is great, but to put this in context today's Japanese housing market essentially happened after the bubble pop in the '90s. Prices from 1991 to 2004 had declined by 64% due to the pop. In that context, deregulation was palatable because people were already underwater and didn't bother as much to fight things that would lower property values. (In fact, it could've raised them.)

kranke155 4y ago

Tokyo also bans Airbnb, period. Something most people here don’t understand.

capableweb 4y ago
So Airbnb is facilitating illegal renting of properties? https://www.airbnb.com/s/Tokyo--Japan/homes?adults=2&refinement_paths%5B%5D=%2Fhomes&checkin=2022-10-01&checkout=2022-10-08&tab_id=home_tab&query=Tokyo%2C%20Japan&flexible_trip_lengths%5B%5D=one_week&price_filter_num_nights=30&search_type=autocomplete_click&place_id=ChIJ51cu8IcbXWARiRtXIothAS4&date_picker_type=calendar&source=structured_search_input_header https://www.airbnb.com/s/Tokyo--Japan/homes?adults=2&refinem... Why wouldn't the government crack down on this?
- kranke155 4y ago
  Sorry as the poster above has said they’ve been legal since 2018. I had inaccurate out of date information.
thematrixturtle 4y ago
Japan (including Tokyo) legalized short-term rentals (minpaku) in 2018. However, there are reasonably toothy licensing requirements and you're capped at 180 days per year.

gfdsgfdsf 4y ago

japan has pretty much 0 immigration and 0 population growth

mistermann 4y ago

> If so what was unique about Tokyo? Japanese culture would be my guess.