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There are two kinds of horror stories about Airbnb. When the home-sharing platform first appeared, the initial cautionary tales tended to emphasize extreme guest (and occasionally host) misbehavior. But as the now decade-old service matured and the number of rental properties proliferated dramatically, a second genre emerged, one that focused on what the service was doing to the larger community: Airbnb was raising rents and taking housing off the rental market. It was supercharging gentrification while discriminating against guests and hosts of color. And as commercial operators took over, it was transforming from a way to help homeowners occasionally rent out an extra room into a purveyor of creepy, makeshift hotels.
Several studies have looked into these claims; some focused on just one issue at a time, or measured Airbnb-linked trends across wide swaths of the country. But a recent report by David Wachsmuth, a professor of Urban Planning at McGill University, zeroes in on New York City in an effort to answer the question of exactly what home sharing is doing to the city.
Source: https://www.citylab.com/equity/2018/03/what-airbnb-did-to-new-york-city/552749/
(Score: 0, Troll) by cocaine overdose on Friday March 09 2018, @09:57PM
Unless you have no arms, no legs, or are physiologically unable to move your body consciously, you can pack up and move. What you mean is "some people don't want to accept their circumstances and adapt." So all you're left with is bitching: "Muh jobs, muh boomers (seriously fuck boomers, jobs are fucked), muh LiViNg StAnDaRdS!!!" While this is a caricature, a simplification, and a hyperbole, if you were to strip away the veneer of "maturity" that contains a proficient use of vocabulary, an adept mind for self-delusion, and the outward appearance of being calm, it's just whining. Like a child whose parents have taken away his Xbox, and now he's on the floor, linting the carpet. Instead of doing something about, he's throwing a tantrum. Get up and take your Xbox back. What are your parents gonna do, yell at you? Man up, lad. Maybe your dad's an alcoholic and he'll glass you for being a lil shit: man up, lad. Do or don't. If you don't, stop bitching.