Graffiti seen in Barcelona, Catalonia
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I'd agree with you a lot more if AirBnB wasn't a lot cheaper than any hotel or other travel accommodation. A town that relies on tourism might be different, but in the USA I save about $100 and get a more private place to stay.
And in there lies the rub. You can have somewhere cheap to stay, but the cost of housing go up everywhere. Or, you pay the extra hundred, and housing is more affordable for everyone.
This is what I mean by the scalper argument. Everyone wants a playstation, and some will 3 and 4 times the price for it. So now no one gets one, because the scalper buy up all the stock. In this case, you want to save 100 bucks. The knock on effect of that is that is that it contributes to increased cost of housing, and millions of people not being able to afford one.
I wouldnt worry too much. Looking at me downvotes, no one wants to blame you anyway. They are happy to just blame airbnb, and demand government regulation. Its pretty pathetic really.
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Looks like someone didn't read the news.
Can you link to the news you refer to? I also seem to haven't read it
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They banned airbnb in victoria bc last year and rent here has actually went down. From this one single change.
Was there tourism in Victoria and what happened to it after the ban? I'm not clever enough to predict what exactly the consequences might be, but I was always interested in what could happen from banning all short-term rental (although maybe that's not the case?)
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It really baffles me that it's legal to own a house
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What about it?
Is the question about what it is or how it would apply to the situation at hand?
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Was there tourism in Victoria and what happened to it after the ban? I'm not clever enough to predict what exactly the consequences might be, but I was always interested in what could happen from banning all short-term rental (although maybe that's not the case?)
It's our biggest tourism season in history this summer but that's thanks to Trump haha
Don't think it's had much effect because we've always had hotel capacity for the demand
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It really baffles me that it's legal to own a house
You mean like as opposed to a government assigned home?
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I was misguided, but had virtuous ideals at the time. I'm not defending the evils in the world anymore. Unlike this person who is trying to justify being evil at this moment.
wrote last edited by [email protected]A lot of young people grow up believing there’s glory in war. But anyone who’s been through it sees how pointless it really is. Ruining soldiers, families, civilians, and even the land itself.
You saw the truth and came back better for it, and that’s worth more than any so-called victory. In the end, all people are equal; born, live, and then gone; war doesn’t change that. The best we can do is share what we’ve learned, so those who come after us don’t fall for the same lies. The rich sending the poor to die for their personal gain only shows how empty and corrupt they are.
I hope you've found your peace, P00ptart, and I hope your story helps sway people away from fighting wars.
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You mean like as opposed to a government assigned home?
You can't really live without air, food and a home, it's a basic need, it should not be something you can horder like a dragon and deny the access to others
It's very interesting this binary thinking in terms of good vs evil, private own vs government own, it's very hard to think outside bourgeoisie ideology?
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An important population we need to increase is ethical landlords.
And by ethical, I mean former.
The only good landlord is a former landlord.
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Ban landlord culture and property prices drop.
Kinda sucks for those already with a mortgage. Defending rental culture because someone might lose out now only guarantees that an ever increasing majority lose out in the future.
It's not just landlords pushing it up.
The constrained supply, the low interest rates, the greedy banks pushing bigger and bigger mortgages, government "help to buy" schemes which appear to be a way to help people buy homes, but in effect just pushes the price ever higher...
The centralisation of jobs in certain areas. We have the internet. This could have practically solved the property crisis on it's own, along with overloaded transport systems and pollution, but rich people were losing too much money, so back to the office, plebs.
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You can't really live without air, food and a home, it's a basic need, it should not be something you can horder like a dragon and deny the access to others
It's very interesting this binary thinking in terms of good vs evil, private own vs government own, it's very hard to think outside bourgeoisie ideology?
You said a lot of stuff but I don't think any of it would really help someone who isn't on the same page as you already
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The only good landlord is a former landlord.
wrote last edited by [email protected]I have a pretty good landlord. This isn't an ACAB situation. The problem is the market, IMO, if not capitalism entirely; even if you got rid of landlords (made it illegal to have tenants), housing prices would still be too high to buy a house. Supply-side or demand-side economics are the only viable solution under capitalism.
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I have a pretty good landlord. This isn't an ACAB situation. The problem is the market, IMO, if not capitalism entirely; even if you got rid of landlords (made it illegal to have tenants), housing prices would still be too high to buy a house. Supply-side or demand-side economics are the only viable solution under capitalism.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Yeah, and there will always be a demand for temporary housing. Even if every person has property, tourists need places to stay, you'd need a place to stay if your house is leveled by a natural disaster, it doesn't make sense to jump through all the hoops of property ownership if you just want to be closer to mom's nursing home in her final months, etc.
The problem isn't filling that need, it's making a profit off it.
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Is he hiring? Is he willing to pay a reasonable living wage?
If not he should STFU.
reasonable living wage?
Whoaaaaa hold on there Chairman Adolf Stalin!! Are you asking him to stifle his innovation??
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I have a pretty good landlord. This isn't an ACAB situation. The problem is the market, IMO, if not capitalism entirely; even if you got rid of landlords (made it illegal to have tenants), housing prices would still be too high to buy a house. Supply-side or demand-side economics are the only viable solution under capitalism.
All landlords are bastards
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People who can no longer afford their mortgages would disagree with you.
So? Then they shouldn't have gotten real estate to begin with if they can't afford a house. A person who relies on renting property to make a living are leaches living off the working class.
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Yeah, and there will always be a demand for temporary housing. Even if every person has property, tourists need places to stay, you'd need a place to stay if your house is leveled by a natural disaster, it doesn't make sense to jump through all the hoops of property ownership if you just want to be closer to mom's nursing home in her final months, etc.
The problem isn't filling that need, it's making a profit off it.
under capitalism, almost nothing happens without a profit. If you're so sure the problem isn't capitalism, please explain to me how exactly you're imagining things should work.
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All landlords are bastards
..no, that's just what I said is not the case. You must have misread?
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On Airbnb or the garfiti?
Air bnb. Actually, I think street art is pretty encouraged. But not tagging like this.
