An Open Letter to Airbnb The pitchforks are coming

Re:An Open Letter to Airbnb The pitchforks are coming by SOLAR_FIELDS on Friday August 27, 2021 @03:48PM (#28332236)

I had a similar sentiment reading the article. It seems the author’s primary beef is investors buying up houses and renting them for Airbnb’s taking up available housing stock. Isn’t then the more straightforward solution for the problem just instead to lobby governments to tax the hell out of any house not occupied by its owner in some way? Doing so didn’t completely solve Vancouver’s issue, but it definitely seemed to help.

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Re:An Open Letter to Airbnb The pitchforks are coming by brailsafe on Friday August 27, 2021 @04:18PM (#28332549)

Vancouver taxes owners that have unoccupied units, and foreign buyers, the owner doesn't need to live in the place. I fully agree with the article. Having seennthe inside of buildings that allow AirBnBs, and the tire tracks leading up to the door with a keypad. I spoke to one person who was able to identify the Airbnb units based on the noise levels on adjacent floors. It's fine to incentivise owner's renting their place long term, or an extra room, but not buying up places to rent on AirBnB. Real bed and breakfasts don't even do that.

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Re:An Open Letter to Airbnb The pitchforks are coming by octopaulus on Friday August 27, 2021 @03:54PM (#28332299)

Yeah not sure why it's an issue to these people that Airbnb is useful

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Re:An Open Letter to Airbnb The pitchforks are coming by dorchadas on Saturday August 28, 2021 @07:54AM (#28337361)

Because they actually want to live in their city, and not have all available housing rented out to tourists?

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Re:An Open Letter to Airbnb The pitchforks are coming by octopaulus on Tuesday August 31, 2021 @05:10PM (#28373708)

Tourists only come when there's Airbnb available ? Wow

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