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Re:The Rise and Fall of a Multimillion-Dollar Airbnb Scheme by jseliger on Saturday February 23, 2019 @04:20PM (#19235544)
If only there were some way, a technology, even, of increasing the total number of units on a given plot of land, such that those who want to live in a city or visit a city wouldn't have to compete so vigorously for livable housing units.

Alas, we can only dream that such a technology. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steel_frame

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Re:The Rise and Fall of a Multimillion-Dollar Airbnb Scheme by pjc50 on Saturday February 23, 2019 @04:59PM (#19235728)
The interesting thing about AirBnb is not in the raw space consumption, but that it's driven down the cost of hotel rooms by changing what "hotel" means.
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Re:The Rise and Fall of a Multimillion-Dollar Airbnb Scheme by jacques_chester on Saturday February 23, 2019 @04:33PM (#19235602)
Is your argument that tall buildings are not built in NYC?
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Re:The Rise and Fall of a Multimillion-Dollar Airbnb Scheme by et2o on Saturday February 23, 2019 @07:28PM (#19236310)
They obviously are, but there are still not nearly enough. If you walk through lower manhattan you see innumerable 3 and 4 story buildings.
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