Thousands of Airbnbs and other short-term rentals are expected to disappear from rental platforms as New York City begins enforcing tight restrictions.

The End of Airbnb in New York::Thousands of Airbnbs and other short-term rentals are expected to disappear from rental platforms as New York City begins enforcing tight restrictions.

  • Nix@merv.newsEnglish
    198·
    1 year ago

    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

    • kaitco@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1614·
      1 year ago

      This move was entirely brought about by the corporate hotels in the area.

      AirBnBs are not the cause of the housing crisis. Corporations, and especially those from overseas, buying up properties so that they can be rented out (again, not through AirBnB), are the issue. That goes for NYC and across the country.

      This is a hit to my family, but we’ll carry on. We put my grandmother’s house in Queens on AirBnB three years ago. No stupid cleaning fees or asinine rules. It’s literally a family home open to people wanting to stay a few days. We only had it on AirBnB to cover the taxes for the house that’s been in our family 70 years. We’re not suddenly going to sell the house, so now it goes to 30+ day rentals or sits empty. I guess it will be easier for me to block out days now, but whatever…

      • DoomBot5@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        1 year ago

        Congrats on being the minority. You’re not the problem, but many others are not in your position.

    • triplenadir@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      somewhat with you except for the “2” - if you agree that taking homes out of the housing pool to run mostly-unregulated hotels is bad, why allow even one per person?

      • ozymandias117@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Vacation homes in places that are inhospitable for over half the year still make some sense, making “2” a fairly reasonable limit per family

        Let’s get to 2 per person, then worry about discussing whether that’s too high

        • triplenadir@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
          11·
          1 year ago

          sure, I wouldn’t say no if airbnb instituted a global 2-address-per-person policy 🤝

          but not everyone’s “inhospitable for over half the year” is the same, I know more than one person whose local community has been basically destroyed by second home owners, there were plenty of people wanting to live in those places full-time but they were priced out.

          • ozymandias117@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            I didn’t mean inhospitable lightly - there are lots of beach houses that are literally unsafe to live in outside of beach season

            With global warming and hurricanes and lack of basic utilities, it’s probably not worth trying to move people there