Re:An Open Letter to Airbnb The pitchforks are coming
by dorchadas on Saturday August 28, 2021 @08:03AM
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> I think in medium term this problem will resolve by itself.
It doesn't. There's always more tourists coming into a city than AirBnBs can handle, especially in big cities. I currently live in Dublin, and AirBnB is a huge issue here. And these people know they can keep charging their prices and raising them because tourists will keep coming. In doing so, they've taken over a thousand units (and probably several thousands, honestly; 1600 is the number that went back on the market when the pandemic hit) off the long term rent market, making the housing crisis here even worse.
It doesn't. There's always more tourists coming into a city than AirBnBs can handle, especially in big cities. I currently live in Dublin, and AirBnB is a huge issue here. And these people know they can keep charging their prices and raising them because tourists will keep coming. In doing so, they've taken over a thousand units (and probably several thousands, honestly; 1600 is the number that went back on the market when the pandemic hit) off the long term rent market, making the housing crisis here even worse.