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New Emergency Preparedness Partnership
- deathhand 12y agoPolitical move to keep dissent quiet about Airbnb raising rental rates in large cities and to stick it to the hotel lobby.
- chimeracoder 12y agoA couple of weeks ago, all the subways were plastered with ads from AirBNB for their "New Yorkers Support AirBNB" campaign. Not even two weeks later, literally every such ad that I have seen is covered in angry graffiti about AirBNB (multiple handwriting, so it doesn't seem like just the work of a single dedicated disgruntled person). Ex: http://imgur.com/8bSdTcN http://imgur.com/8bSdTcN http://imgur.com/QW0RBFB http://imgur.com/QW0RBFB
- TheIronYuppie 12y agoWhy the hate? Did I miss the stories?
- parfe 12y agoYou need stories to explain why renting space to transients in high density residential areas might cause issues?
- DINKDINK 12y agoThe anti-airbnb side claims that airbnb takes apartments or rooms off the market for people who want to live full-time in that city. (thus increasing the price of available rooms) The pro-airbnb side, I'm guessing, would claim: 1.) Why should certain people (renters) get preferential treatment to live in a city over other people (visitors). 2.) Are flat/apartment/home owners not entitled to do with their property what they wish?
- JohnTHaller 12y agoMy personal favorite part of the commercial is how it's all about these people 'sharing' their homes, which is actually legal in New York state. Except there's that little fact that the majority of AirBnB's NYC rentals are illegal whole-apartment rentals without the owners there. AirBnB isn't real big on honest representations.
- opendais 12y agoPerhaps but the Hotels have the Transitional Shelter Assistance (TSA) program in regards to disasters as well. So its not like it is something special or unique. http://www.fema.gov/public-assistance-local-state-tribal-and-non-profit/recovery-directorate/transitional-shelter http://www.fema.gov/public-assistance-local-state-tribal-and...
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- freehunter 12y agoHow does this mesh with legal efforts trying to shut down Airbnb? Is the service being endorsed by the federal government while being banned by state and local governments?
- Taek 12y agoPolitical move or not, I think this is an excellent thing for society. It lowers the bar to providing your home as a resource to disaster victims, and makes it easier for disaster victims to find recovery havens. This is a good thing.
- ktothemc 12y agoYeah, but what happens when all of the police officers and fire fighters have been priced out of San Francisco and can't get into the city from the East Bay during the event of a major earthquake?
- nostromo 12y agoA smart move for everyone involved. FEMA trailers for Katrina were a boondoggle. Costing $15,000 each, most were never used. http://i.imgur.com/kdzzG8U.jpg http://i.imgur.com/kdzzG8U.jpg But that's just the tip of the iceberg. The total cost of ownership for many of the trailers ended up being north of $100,000 or even $200,000. http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08106.pdf http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08106.pdf
- peterwwillis 12y agoI'm curious whether other organizations like Couchsurfing could hop on this bandwagon. Even without a city-wide natural disaster, sometimes there's an immediate need for local relief and people have excess capacity. Here in Baltimore there was a street that collapsed a few months ago and residents were sent to hotels way outside the city with no way to get to their jobs, schools, etc. Luckily a week or two afterwards they moved them to hotels closer to their homes, but Airbnb, Couchsurfing and other organizations could provide relief for minor crises like that, too.
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- bnycum 12y agoI know this seems like a good move, but I live in a part of Louisiana that wasn't directly affected by Katrina or Rita that the victims of both retreated to. I've gotta say I'd never do it, the amount of problems that resulted from that was too high. Just imagine anything and everything trashed or vandalized.