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NYC has outlawed them more than 30 days (unless it's just a room and you're in the unit). NY state has legally created a registry and now smaller towns are req
by mancerayder 1y ago
NYC has outlawed them more than 30 days (unless it's just a room and you're in the unit). NY state has legally created a registry and now smaller towns are requiring permits.
But Seattle and NYC Airbnbs aren't second homes, it's investments people were trying to play with. A vacation home is more a seasonal spot near a beach or a lake or mountain. That sort of stuff doesn't steal some middle class family's chances of renting something cheaper by pulling a unit off the rental market.
- ericmay 1y agoPied-à-terre is a thing in places like NYC, London, etc. Certainly you are right that there are differences and different cities have different features which attract different folks with different ideas. But I think vacation home can include not just a season spot near a beach or lake or mountain - people buy vacation homes in Mallorca, or Venice, or Provence, or wherever too. I am not really opposed to them or anything like that, I just wanted to point out there are some harmful effects for some places. The travel industry and the ease of travel is probably more of a concern, because instead of having a family buy a vacation property on a beach somewhere, you've got an entire industry turning that vacation spot into a zoo and for the number of people that do live in that vacation area it hollows it out a bit of any sort of meaning. The whole thing becomes a simulation of a vacation spot.
- apwell23 1y ago> NYC has outlawed them more than 30 days did it help the problems that are being mentioned here.