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The problem with ignoring hotel regulations and renting out residential units is the existing tax, zoning, and building codes don't account for AirBnB. It shou
by mulmen 4y ago
The problem with ignoring hotel regulations and renting out residential units is the existing tax, zoning, and building codes don't account for AirBnB. It should be ruinously expensive in tax terms to rent out a residential unit full time. Those units should be used to house people, not to literally extract rent. Residents should have a choice to say what they want to be surrounded by.
- kelnos 4y agoExcept that Airbnb hosts are indeed required to pay hotel taxes (or taxes enacted specifically for short-term rentals) in some jurisdictions, and yet... it's still worth it, financially. And, what do you know, prices are often still better than staying at a hotel.
- Nextgrid 4y agoAre you saying that the tenants in an Airbnb doesn’t constitute “housing people”? Where do you draw the line then? Airbnb has many problems and is a disgraceful company especially nowadays, but one thing they did well is to add significant flexibility to a legacy industry full of gatekeepers.
- mulmen 4y agoI draw the line at long-term housing of local residents. Anything else is a hotel. A vacation rental is not housing people. AirBnB adds flexibility for new rent-seekers. It doesn’t address housing affordability and in some cases actually makes it worse.