Re:Airbnb’s ‘Guerrilla War’ Against Local Governments
by ratfaced-guy on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @04:20PM
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You know most of the world has much more lax zoning and land use laws than the USA right? Somehow they manage to have nice neighborhoods with nice neighbors.
There's also nothing wrong with gated communities and in fact that would be vastly preferable to having a few rich people make everybody in the city abide by their own arbitrary regulations.
Good luck finding anyone to live in that kind of neighbourhood by choice. If you have an area with zero controls, it quickly will become a race-to-the-bottom.
The kinds of people who want to live in a nice neighbourhood, and be nice neighbours, will go live somewhere else.
It turns out that people feel the same way about freedom to do what you like with your single-family home as they do about the freedom to drive a car without getting a license or being insured, and the freedom to drive on whichever side of the road you like, and the freedom to drive a vehicle without smog regulation or safety rules.
Most people don't want your freedom, because the upside of their freedom is greatly outweighed by the downsides of their neighbour's freedoms.
They'll all just go any set up gated communities where everyone buying a home must contractually agree to the neighbourhood's own regulations.