New York’s Airbnb Ban Is Descending Into Pure Chaos
New York’s Airbnb Ban Is Descending Into Pure Chaos
People are listing short-term rentals on social media and lesser-known platforms, bolstering a rental black market in New York City.
New York’s Airbnb Ban Is Descending Into Pure Chaos::People are listing short-term rentals on social media and lesser-known platforms, bolstering a rental black market in New York City.
Make sure you keep in mind that Conde Nast (the parent company of Wired) has subsidiary companies running articles like "35 Best Airbnbs Near New York City, From Cozy Cabins in the Catskills to Beachy Houses in the Hamptons"[1]. They likely have indirect or direct financial ties to AirBnB.
So this article that is seemingly trying to present an argument that this regulation isn't working because a black market has emerged, while giving more space in the article to small landlords and AirBnB's CEO and their defence than to critics of AirBnB, as well as mentioning hotel prices rising but not how AirBnB has caused rental prices to rise... should give you pause about the bias this article is trying to hide.
[1] https://www.cntraveler.com/gallery/best-airbnbs-near-new-york-city
274I figured as much. Without an open and easy to advertise platform to rent out spaces, people are going back to how it used to be...
It's an alarmist article. Much ado about nothing.
30Great catch
17JD POWER AND ASSOCIATES SAID BUY OUR SHIT, IT'S THE BEST!
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The headline is alarmist nonsense that is absolutely not supported by the facts presented. There are no numbers given for how many rentals are being listed on alternate sources. The numbers for listings marked as exempt on AirBNB certainly suggest that the ban is working exactly as intended. Yes, hotel prices will go up, obviously. That's not something that anyone is surprised to hear. The rest is just anecdote presented as data. There's no "chaos" here, just life being life.
72Purged by creator
70Heck. Let people submit tips with proof, and split the fines with the reporters.
Then the short-term renters own customers will report the rental when they're done. And then get money. Crowdsource the snitching
45Not the US, but my city actually started a snitch e-mail address.
Stuff like airbnb now need a permission, and if you suspect an address has an unlicenced one, you can ask them and they will actually tell you if it's an allowed listing.
Reported two of them, one was allowed, another one "will be checked". Not sure what happened to the latter
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Hell, just book the suites and dont pay. If they have an issue, they can get into contact with new yorks regulatory body.
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It's so funny watching skumlords scramble!
61It is paywalled
8You can pretty much put any article into archive.ph and it gets past the paywalls.
Go to: http://archive.ph
Paste in the url: https://www.wired.com/story/airbnb-ban-new-york-illegal-listings/
Hit “save” and get: https://archive.ph/ship1
24It's even easier. Just put "archive.ph/" between the "https://" and whatever comes next:
https://archive.ph/www.wired.com/story/airbnb-ban-new-york-illegal-listings/
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What did they expect?
All the people who are renting out some spare appartment should suddenly stop it and move in themselves again? ;-)
4That they would return it to the pool of long term rentals and help drive rent rates down. That or drove them to sell to someone that wants to live there.
6Probably.
A similar approach is under discussion even where I live and everyone seems to think that forbidding the "short rent" (as it is called here) will magically put all these apartament on the market for "long rent", lowering the prices.Until it is not understood that (well, at least here) AirBnB is not the cause but the result the problem will never be solved.
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