A blessing, really, for cities experiencing housing shortage.

Good. That was kinda the whole fucking point of Airbnb in the first place. If you want to own property for the sole purpose of short term rentals buy a hotel.

Smart. People can still rent out an extra room, but can’t squat on an apartment solely for Airbnb.

That’s how airbnbs were when I’ve used them in the past, things like a place where you can sleep on someone’s couch, or a house with a spare room you can crash in. Those kinds of arrangements were way cheaper than hotels and very appealing.

The rent for regular apartments has basically doubled in the past couple years. You see studios go for $3000/mo, and 1 bedrooms for $4500+ quite often. I really hope this will have a helpful effect on lowering for the people who already live here, who can't make ends meet because of absurd rental prices and hikes lately. There needs to be more housing and reasonable prices for people who live here. Compared to the median income here (and not the mean, because it's not representative to count the billionaires), it's literally not affordable for the people who grew up here and started their lives here, to afford to have a roof over their head. That's why you see shit like 5 unrelated adults in a 1 bedroom apartment together, or a big extended family of multiple generations, partners, etc., all living under the same roof. Nobody can afford anything better here.

I hope that these type of easily exploitable services just absolutely die. New York is the last place I would have expected to hear these type of services turned scummy to start to disappear, but I welcome it and hope it spreads across the country.

Toronto desperately needs this.

Downtown service businesses looking at empty offices due to WFH. "Well, at least people still come downtown for its hotels. Tourists still have lots of money to prop us up!" AirBnB gets banned, hotels start jacking up prices. "Well, #$%#."

I think offices into hotels would solve both problems, right?

Who is having trouble finding a hotel room in New York City? It's expensive, but everything is expensive there.

Off topic but I always thought the airbnb logo looks like a dangling ballsack and their service fits well with that image, so I'm not the least bit surprised to see the company struggling.

I feel like this approach to Airbnb is the wrong way. They should pass laws to prevent anyone from owning more than 2 homes and one of the homes should be one they live in. Corporations shouldn’t be able to buy multiple homes to rent out.

Airbnb makes it way easier for people to find places to rent, instead of focusing on making the housing crises better by preventing landlords and corporations from buying all the homes to rent out they’re just making it harder to rent places… fix the system don’t just focus your efforts on making one tech harder to use

ELI5: why is having airbnb’s a bad thing? ( not local, not in the loop )