The topic of housing is so fucking depressing. My rent has gone up 50% in the last 3 years.
EDIT: I was saving up for a house, but house prices literally doubled during the pandemic in my area. A starter home was ~$200K, now it's hard to get in the door at $400K all in 2 years. I went from being able to put 20% down to not being able to clear PMI. I make decent money and the most I'd be able to get for a loan is about $200K so I just need to find $160K to be able to buy a bottom of the barrel house that cost $180K in 2019. What the fuck are you supposed to do about that?
The last place I lived was sold to a new owner who increased the rent by $500 to bring it up to "market value". Tried warning new tenants that they were ghouls, the management company hired someone to put new product on the floor that still wasn't dry when they moved in and their furniture stuck to the floor.
I feel you. I did something similar. I co-rented a whole ass house a few years ago before I moved into an apartment. The latter was cheaper, but now, I'm paying as much for my apartment as I was for the house.
If the apartments are being turned into hotels, why doesn't the government simply turn the hotels into apartments?
Would be nice if there was an "ethical" filter for Airbnb. They're often a superior way to stay when visiting a city due to proximity to local attractions and not being a hotel zombie. In Portland, the Airbnb owners have to be primary residents of whatever property they're making available
It used to be. In my experience recently they're as expensive as hotels now without the convenience of being able to check in whenever or leave your bag in the lobby in the morning before check-in/ after check-out but you're doing a last bit of sightseeing.
sadly for the kind of people who stay in airbnbs this will just make it better for them
probably wank themselves off to the thought of taking up space that could be used for families of locals on their bougie holidayprobably wank themselves off to the thought of taking up space that could be used for families of locals on their bougie holiday
Why? What kind of evil weirdo behaves like that?
I mean call me crazy but I don't exactly want solidarity with the people who own like 15 places just to rent them out on AirBnB.
Nah solidarity with each other obviously.
I’ve never been on a website that interpreted comments les charitably than this cesspoool i call home
I get the idea, but is AirBnB the real issue? Tourists will want somewhere to stay, and travel is cool. The fact that capitalism doesn't provide anywhere near enough housing was a problem before AirBnB and remains a problem now. Maybe I misunderstand.
Airbnb takes housing for locals and creates unregulated hotels that people wind up living in. Rent is already bad, the primary innovation airbnb has is making it worse.
