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They are referring to this article on Slate - http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2014/02/airbnb_gentrification_how_the_sharing_economy_drives_up_ho
by nobbyclark 13y ago
They are referring to this article on Slate - http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2014/02/airbnb_gentrification_how_the_sharing_economy_drives_up_housing_prices.html http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2014/02/airb...
> If you’re looking for a place to stay in Marfa this evening, there are a total of five options available. In the six year history of Airbnb, only 17 properties have ever been booked in Marfa. So it’s difficult to argue that Airbnb is having any impact on the housing market in this community.
Kinda funny reading that then the original article on slate attempting to make something out of this non-story
- crystaln 13y agoSo you found there to be some reliable information in the Airbnb article? Please extract that here, as I all I found was a bunch of unsupported defensive statements cleverly disguised as scientific conclusions.
- thecosas 13y agoJust because the Slate piece IS bunk, it doesn't follow that the airbnb response IS NOT bunk. They're both wrong in how they're presenting the "rightness" of data.