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AirBnB absolutely removes housing from the one rental market that matters - long term rentals. This is quite easy to see, as well as its influence on supply and
by dorchadas 4y ago
AirBnB absolutely removes housing from the one rental market that matters - long term rentals. This is quite easy to see, as well as its influence on supply and thus pricing. In 2020 the number of long term let's available in Dublin doubled thanks to tourism shutting down and landlord switching. Sadly that's likely all been lost now.
Short term lets are nowhere near as important as long term ones, especially vacation rentals. They're actively harmful often, especially with the way AirBnB takes supply from the long-term lets.
- IIAOPSW 4y agoWait a second. You're using the 2020 pandemic and the massive system shock it caused on (among other industries) tourism as a proxy for the impact of tourism in particular on rental availability and then extrapolating it further to the effects of AirBnB in particular? As opposed to the gigantic obvious other system shocks that happened in 2020 which also had a massive impact on housing and commuting patterns vis a vis work from home and mass exodus from urban areas in general. Pray tell have you ever tried to reject the hypothesis AirBnB is the cause of housing problems? Have you looked and failed to find data in that direction at all?