• fracture [he/him] @beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    idk this story really wants to paint the duplex lady as sympathetic, but she’s living the high life to have an entire separate house attached to hers to do what she pleases with. i don’t really feel bad that she can’t make money off airbnb with it, she can still exploit people make money off it by having long term tenants. you know, like she wasn’t just arbitrarily taking an entire housing situation off the market. sure, she’s not as much of a problem as big corpos making bank on airbnb, but i fully feel like she’s more in that category than not

    i’m open to hearing other opinions on this, though. i’ve never lived in a duplex. maybe they’re really intimate with consideration to the other people living there? but from my view, this seems just like someone who owns two apartments and is now upset they can’t get their airbnb slice of the pie for the other one

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      1 year ago

      Hotels aren’t the only ones who stand to benefit from codes such as these. NYC’s may have been overly harsh, but more cities should be looking to clamp down on housing being sucked out of the local market by big money interests.