Turns out claims Airbnb was taking houses out of the rental market were right

Re:Turns out claims Airbnb was taking houses out of the rent... by jgwil2 on Saturday March 21, 2020 @09:33PM (#22651881)

Was this ever seriously debated? As far as I know the only question ever was the size of the effect, not whether there was any effect at all.

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Re:Turns out claims Airbnb was taking houses out of the rent... by smabie on Saturday March 21, 2020 @09:41PM (#22651938)

I mean unless the houses were going to sit empty otherwise, then of course there would be an affect. Not really sure what the article is trying to say.

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Re:Turns out claims Airbnb was taking houses out of the rent... by claudeganon on Saturday March 21, 2020 @09:41PM (#22651936)

Go read any of the old HN threads on AirBNB. Saying this had these kind of effects was decried as “hotel industry propaganda.”

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Re:Turns out claims Airbnb was taking houses out of the rent... by omnimus on Sunday March 22, 2020 @05:40AM (#22653821)

I've never seen "hotel industry propaganda" but the effects on market were debated and often very doubted.

Now it seems there is evidence.

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Re:Turns out claims Airbnb was taking houses out of the rent... by umeshunni on Saturday March 21, 2020 @09:52PM (#22651987)

It's not an article. It's a tweet by some rando who just learned about demand and supply.

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Re:Turns out claims Airbnb was taking houses out of the rent... by cardiffspaceman on Saturday March 21, 2020 @10:19PM (#22652142)

It's tweets about a report, not just some data-free rant.

https://www.daft.ie/blog/the-covid-19-crisis-is-already-affe...

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