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Related: About this forumAirbnb is making the housing crunch much worse
"In a city that only builds an average of 3,000 new housing units a year, we lost 2,000 housing units to short-term vacation rentals in 2017 alone.
Anyone who claims to be a proponent of building more housing to help solve the housing crisis should also be an opponent of short-term rentals."
https://www.voiceofsandiego.org/topics/opinion/anyone-who-supports-more-housing-should-oppose-short-term-vacation-rentals/
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Airbnb is making the housing crunch much worse (Original Post)
Addison
May 2018
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Happening in Europe too, especially in tourist destinations like Venice and Barcelona.
OnDoutside
May 2018
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OnDoutside
(19,908 posts)1. Happening in Europe too, especially in tourist destinations like Venice and Barcelona.
I still do not understand why all of this is even legal. In WA state as I am sure in other places, taxes are collected from hotels. They also have specific regulations they are required to follow and can be inspected by the health department. Airbnb's seem to fall through the cracks.
The housing shortage in Seattle is magnified by the conversions to short term rentals.
msongs
(67,199 posts)3. same in hawaii. rentals take thousands of homes away from locals seeking places
to live. talking esp about investors and speculators, not just grandma renting out a bedroom for spare change