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[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Maybe they should ban whole home AirBNB.. i only ever do rooms.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Theyd part out a hous into multiple rooms. I stayed at one airbnb that were 3 stories and each one was another airbnb, with a kitchen on the main level that had to be shared. No one used it for the 3 days i was there, but still.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

You can easily regulate against that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Through the tax code. If you have a short term rental property that's not a primary residence: shazam busted. You'd need some kind of policing for it but you could force airbnb to make a filing on it as well which would make it possible to automate.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

No regulation is worth anything without enforcement.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Sure. That's step two. You gotta do step one first.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I agree. It wasn't meant to be against regulations. Problem is in my city we have plenty of regulations to avoid repurposing flats for tourist rentals without a permit, we have regulations against systematically letting flats empty to be able to sell the house or flat at a premium etc. But we only have like three dozen government employees, who are supposed to oversee a city with more than 1.5 million flats and individual homes. So even if every one of them manages to check on 2 flats every day, they manage like 15.000 flats a year, which is already a rather optimistic estimate.

It is crucial to not only demand regulation, but also that enough resources are assigned to enforce them.