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headgasketidiot t1_iui8fbk wrote

Let's ban airbnb and invest in public housing.

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-_Stove_- t1_iuijnse wrote

These two things don't have to be mutually exclusive. Regulate short-term rental housing tigher? Sure. Ban it outright? That might come back to bite you.

Invest in public housing? Absolutely.

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the_ocean t1_iuizkc8 wrote

> Ban it outright? That might come back to bite you.

How? It’s not like hotels and motels didn’t exist pre-Airbnb. And it’s not like word-of-mouth, unregulated, and often illegal short-term-rentals didn’t happen either. Airbnb just makes it exceptionally easy to be an unaccountable absentee landlord.

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