Re:The Rise of the Professional Airbnb Investor
by paublyrne on Sunday February 19, 2017 @03:43PM
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Poor people leaving a city increases the quality of life for (richer) people that remain? That's not the obvious result of gentrification. I didn't say cities should optimise for quality of life, but quality of life should be an important consideration in the generation of policy. Other factors like cultural diversity also need to be taken into account, as well as mixing people with different income levels. I have found apartments in Berlin, for instance, that I was unable to rent because they had maximum income caps (and very low ones).
Re:The Rise of the Professional Airbnb Investor
by golergka on Monday February 20, 2017 @02:11AM
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> Poor people leaving a city increases the quality of life for (richer) people that remain?
That's true, but not what I meant: by changing the group you measure the metric over, you change the value of the metric.
While I can agree to some extent to this being the metric optimized, this metric depends on who gets to be a citizen. For example, the situation when the city becomes too expensive for particular class of people and they move out leads to increased in quality of life of remaining citizen, but people (not me) usually express negative views on this.