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Re:What Airbnb really does to a neighbourhood by ritchiea on Thursday August 30, 2018 @02:04PM (#17879085)
It's not just a lack of housing. Airbnb is changing neighborhoods by creating increased demand for vacation friendly activities and turning some areas into an effective full time weekend. It's taking popular neighborhoods like the Mission in SF or Williamsburg in Brooklyn or the Gothic quarter in Barcelona and turning them into 365 day a year tourist parties. Any neighborhood with a reputation for being hip, having art, music, bars etc. is now half populated by Airbnb guests at all times.
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Re:What Airbnb really does to a neighbourhood by istorical on Thursday August 30, 2018 @03:37PM (#17880011)
And for many of us - we like having exciting nightlife options in Williamsburg or the Mission during the week. The solution isn't to stop neighborhoods from becoming lively and fun, it's to once again build more housing so that those who don't want to live in lively neighborhoods can move to another neighborhood.
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Re:What Airbnb really does to a neighbourhood by nix0n on Thursday August 30, 2018 @02:14PM (#17879196)
> Any neighborhood with a reputation for being hip, having art, music, bars etc. is now half populated by Airbnb guests at all times

Why are there so few of these places?

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Re:What Airbnb really does to a neighbourhood by forgottenpass on Friday August 31, 2018 @09:26AM (#17885359)
They're generally unsustainable. Having a reputation means a deviation from the norm. Once their reputation is big enough, the number of newcomers to the culture will outstrips the ability for the culture to assimilate them.

Sustainability in the face of that requires whatever the culture is centered around to be the kind of thing that can both put up a facade that serve casuals and angry neighbors, while simultaneously maintaining an environment for the core that built it to retain momentum. And circumstance might just make that impossible.

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Re:What Airbnb really does to a neighbourhood by jdmichal on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @06:00PM (#17913215)
There's a piece that covers this pretty well:

https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths

Last posted on HN 2 months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17433487

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Re:What Airbnb really does to a neighbourhood by 0x4f3759df on Thursday August 30, 2018 @03:04PM (#17879711)
That's a bit of a reduction. More like 'Any neighborhood in a world class city with a reputation ...' Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Kansas City could develop cool areas, but probably won't be overrun by AirBnB tourists.
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