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.
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Make sure you keep in mind that Conde Nast (the parent company of Wired) has subsidiary companies running articles like “35 Best Airbnbs Near New York City, From Cozy Cabins in the Catskills to Beachy Houses in the Hamptons”[1]. They likely have indirect or direct financial ties to AirBnB.
So this article that is seemingly trying to present an argument that this regulation isn’t working because a black market has emerged, while giving more space in the article to small landlords and AirBnB’s CEO and their defence than to critics of AirBnB, as well as mentioning hotel prices rising but not how AirBnB has caused rental prices to rise… should give you pause about the bias this article is trying to hide.
[1] https://www.cntraveler.com/gallery/best-airbnbs-near-new-york-city
Conde Nast ruined Wired.
They also own reddit.
And Ars Techina…
They own a shit ton of media and I’ve never seen a positive improvement after they took something over.
None of these companies want to improve anything other than quarterly profits and will take whatever shitty action to get there
Yeah, the big tipoff that Conde owns a website is they post a lot of “great deals for ____!” posts.
Because they all use affiliate links.
And a lot less actual reviews of products because those have to be written. So you end up with a giant page full of links to a 100 products with maybe a sentence for each link.
News companies switched to affiliate links from ads. Even The New York Times made the switch. Google, Facebook, and Craigslist are their lunch.
Aired only once, then hidden in the extras of the DVD release btw.
Great catch
JD POWER AND ASSOCIATES SAID BUY OUR SHIT, IT’S THE BEST!
It’s so funny watching skumlords scramble!
It is paywalled
You can pretty much put any article into archive.ph and it gets past the paywalls.
Go to: http://archive.ph
Paste in the url: https://www.wired.com/story/airbnb-ban-new-york-illegal-listings/
Hit “save” and get: https://archive.ph/ship1
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What did they expect?
All the people who are renting out some spare appartment should suddenly stop it and move in themselves again? ;-)
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.
