People are listing short-term rentals on social media and lesser-known platforms, bolstering a rental black market in New York City.

New York’s Airbnb Ban Is Descending Into Pure Chaos::People are listing short-term rentals on social media and lesser-known platforms, bolstering a rental black market in New York City.

  • @NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7•1 year ago

    What did they expect?

    All the people who are renting out some spare appartment should suddenly stop it and move in themselves again? ;-)

    • gian English
      3•1 year ago

      Probably.
      A similar approach is under discussion even where I live and everyone seems to think that forbidding the “short rent” (as it is called here) will magically put all these apartament on the market for “long rent”, lowering the prices.

      Until it is not understood that (well, at least here) AirBnB is not the cause but the result the problem will never be solved.