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Re:Cuomo signs bill prohibiting Airbnb listings in NYC by eropple on Friday October 21, 2016 @10:17PM (#12766694)
> Who is being harmed?

The neighbors onto whom AirBNB providers offload their externalities.

Re:Cuomo signs bill prohibiting Airbnb listings in NYC by morgante on Saturday October 22, 2016 @06:57AM (#12768216)
What externalities? I hear this ridiculous point all the time, but have absolutely no evidence of it being a real problem.

Yes, there are bad guests occasionally. But there are also bad tenants occasionally—and the former is a hell of a lot easier to deal with quickly.

Re:Cuomo signs bill prohibiting Airbnb listings in NYC by willholloway on Friday October 21, 2016 @10:51PM (#12766835)
AirBnB house has positive externalities, and is much more desirable to live next to than multifamily, at least in the type of town I live in.

This is why my land owning neighbors love me and are happy with the direction the neighborhood is changing into.