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- technology@lemmy.world
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- technology@lemmy.world
Under the new restrictions, short-term renters will need to register with the city and must be present in the home for the duration of the rental
Home-sharing company Airbnb said it had to stop accepting some reservations in New York City after new regulations on short-term rentals went into effect.
The new rules are intended to effectively end a free-for-all in which landlords and residents have been renting out their apartments by the week or the night to tourists or others in the city for short stays. Advocates say the practice has driven a rise in demand for housing in already scarce neighbourhoods in the city.
Under the new system, rentals shorter than 30 days are only allowed if hosts register with the city. Hosts must also commit to being physically present in the home for the duration of the rental, sharing living quarters with their guest. More than two guests at a time are not allowed, either, meaning families are effectively barred.
I took a trip out to the Rockies earlier this year, and booked an AirBnB. The listing was for the basement of a house where a lovely old retired couple lived. The basement was decorated and furnished beautifully, and we got to chat with the couple every now and then. They gave us recommendations to a farmer’s market which was pretty cool.
It was the first time I’ve ever booked an Airbnb that was true to its original mission. This is what AirBnb should be - renting out spare rooms - and not a turn-an-apartment-unit-into-a-hotel thing.
That basement should be someone’s house.
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It’s so fucking obnoxious the way people try to make outlier situations as if it invalidates the argument. You know god damn well the situations you’re describing are an extremely tiny percentage of airbnb usage (honestly if any at all). Don’t be daft.
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I like the part where you called me a troll because I didn’t want to DM with you.
Real classy buds.
If they are using Airbnb then they are already a landlord.
Hotels are for short term, houses are for living.
Ah stop, I get the intention but b&b’s are a thing and always have been. Wanting to sporadically have a visitor in your retirement shouldn’t require becoming a permanent landlord.
People should not be running hotels in residential areas.
If the owners are living in it at the same time, and you’re renting out a room, that’s hardly a hotel.
The original comment was a basement that they were renting out short term.
I don’t see how that matters. A spare room is a spare room whether it’s in the basement, the first floor, or the attic.
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If you look at the comment I replied to, it said they have a full furnished basement that they airbnb out.
I said it should be a house for someone to live in.
I’m not exactly sure where you’re getting “should they be compelled to sell part of their lifelong home outright” or “I don’t think any reasonable person would call me a landlord for renting out my apartment for a week while I take a trip” in my comments, it seems you’re either inventing something to get mad at or you have a guilty conscience.
Because that’s the standard of living? A basement?
Fully furnished? I own a home, my guest room is fully furnished in that it has a bed, desk, side tables, and a TV.
Listen to yourself. Fully furnished doesn’t mean the same as configured with separate utilities, a separate entrance, a separate kitchen, or separate bathing facilities.
I’m glad you’re housing secure with a guest room, it must be nice.
Some people would kill for a full furnished basement and instead of being rented out short term it could be housing someone instead and leave the short term to hotels.
I really don’t understand why this is such a controversial view.
I wouldn’t want someone living in my basement full time. I have no obligation to make that basement available to live in wtf kinda bullshit is this.
In this specific instance, I suspect it is because there is every indication that the basement room rented by OP was not, in fact, a fully self contained suite within a house, but was a guest room.
How do you physically get into these “basement suites” in your part of the world? When I lived in a townhouse, access to the cellar was via a door in the middle of the property leading off the kitchen. There would be no practical way to split the cellar off from the main property as a separate dwelling. But having guests sleep down there every so often was no big deal.
in a case of a house shortage, maybe… but The issue is not that there is a house shortage. It is that the houses are not being used as houses. There are more than enough houses in almost every city to home everyone and several times over to house the homeless. But that isn’t what the houses are being used for. If they were then yeah, they’d have the space likely to rent out like an Airbnb. But there should be no homeless anywhere if there’s enough rooms to pull off Airbnb. But no one is looking at the homeless as an issue before starting an Airbnb.
Airbnb is unchecked capitalism that got way out of hand. It’s very fucked up to call this a society anymore. This is hell.
*some neckbeards house
I agree. We’re short so much housing, I’m sure there are so many in that community that would leap at those accomodations.
Sure let’s force people to rent out for furnished rooms now. I have two and sometimes guests stay here but if I wanted to set up a b&b and have someone here a few times a year it sure shit doesn’t mean o have to rent it out permanently. The idea of being forced to live with strangers permanently disgusts me. This is my house and I need my privacy. It’s the government’s job who gets my tax money to fix housing not mine.
Agree about the government needing to fix the housing crunch. To be clear I’m not proposing to forcibly rent your basement. What I object to is allowing residential stock to be used for vacation rentals. It’s turned homes into financial instruments, and as to often happens with such, it benefits a few at the cost of many.
And really I don’t know how you got from what I said to forcing out your extra rooms. On a personal note: maby you should examine why having others near you is disgusting. I understand wanting privacy, but that’s some strong language you used.
I’m surprised how many people have disagreed without taking the time to explain why.
Expecting someone to debate this shit right here? There’s absolutely no need. There’s no way you’re saying this seriously. If you are, the onus is on you to explain why this isn’t you being facetious or just shitposting
I’m shitposting because I think houses should house people and not be a hotel?
Oh, you want to have a little fun with me?
First explain your initial point, fully. You will do this first, on your next comment to me, or i will read your comment as “im shitposting and kind of new to trolling”
Since i think ive already seen your best, this is probably goodbye.
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I appreciate your digging into it more thoroughly, friend.
I asked you to continue to reply in the thread, and that I did not want to DM with you.
Houses should be houses, not hotels.
It’s pretty simple and if I have to say the same thing to you again I will.
They’re already using it as a house.
I have a finished basement. I could fit a bed down here. Am I somehow obligated to let somebody live here? You sound like a teenager.
Houses should be used by home owners as they see fit a long as it isn’t endangering anyone. Houses shouldn’t be purchased as an investment to solely be used as hotels.
I’m surprised you expect anyone to take you seriously with that name
Implying anyone’s name is taken more seriously than another. Are you serious?
I don’t.