A law meant to crack down on short-term rentals in New York City took effect Tuesday. Thousands have dropped off the map, but there are still hosts offering bookings that may break the law.

This Is the True Scale of New York’s Airbnb Apocalypse::A law meant to crack down on short-term rentals in New York City took effect Tuesday. Thousands have dropped off the map, but there are still hosts offering bookings that may break the law.

  • BedSharkPal@lemmy.caEnglish
    1912·
    1 year ago

    I love seeing more places banning or restricting air bnb. Fuck that company and its role in the housing crisis.

    • assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.worldEnglish
      72·
      1 year ago

      Fuck most of the ‘gig’ economy in general. It’s just a way for venture capitalists to skirt labour laws while peddling shitty stock to retail rubes.

      • kugel7c@feddit.deEnglish
        11·
        1 year ago

        It’s also literally always trying to monopolise the platform for a market and then essentially extract rent from that platform, which is stupid, Uber and Airbnb (…) provide an app and maybe a little customer support but joink N% percent of each transaction.