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You skipped “ban Airbnbs” as NYC did (to no effect other than making it more difficult for people who live there to have friends come visit them).
by School-Cotton 11mo ago
You skipped “ban Airbnbs” as NYC did (to no effect other than making it more difficult for people who live there to have friends come visit them).
- jeffbee 11mo agoRight, the list of counterproductive things we already tried is too long to write down in this little box. Thanks for the reminder, though.
- tclancy 11mo agoYes, no one ever visited NYC before AirBnB. And you’re ignoring a boatload of negative externalities, but that’s the glory of our current economic setup, isn’t it?
- School-Cotton 11mo agoI didn't say "impossible", I said "more difficult".
- immibis 11mo agoWell that makes sense doesn't it? Shortage of X, but we don't want it to be expensive -> add some non-monetary costs of acquiring X. Queues on the iPhone release day, for example - the price of the phone is not just the money you pay, but also all the time you spend waiting in line.
- School-Cotton 11mo agoThat is a temporary problem which Apple routinely solves in the long run by... making enough iPhones for all the people who want one. I.e. exactly what we should be doing with housing.
- kevin_thibedeau 11mo agoNew housing is subject to cost disease. Now exacerbated because the off the books workers the industry depends on are being kicked out. You can't just materialize houses without the labor to make them.
- School-Cotton 11mo agoI think US immigration policy is pretty shitty, so no argument from me there.
- immibis 11mo agoThen reduce minimum costs. Let 50 people share an empty lot and put up a slum made of wooden planks from the hardware store. They won't allow this because it'd make house prices decrease.
- tclancy 11mo agoThat plus a history of people dying from building things not to code and trying to live in it, plus the externalized costs of having to put out the ensuing fire due to a non-electrician wiring the thing. Other than that, spot on.
- tclancy 11mo agoOh well, when you put it that way … Christ on a rubber crutch.
- lux-lux-lux 11mo agoLong-term rental listings jumped nearly 30% after the ban, that’s far from ‘no effect.’ For a comparison, that’s about double what Austin was getting YoY for most of its massive building boom.