Airbn-banned: New York Finally Cracks Down on Illegal Landlords
<p>Evidently I’m the Internet’s go-to anti-Airbnb guy, because I can’t tell you how many people emailed, messaged, and tweeted/X’d me in the past 48 hours to let me know what I’d already heard:</p>
<p>“New York City just banned Airbnb.”</p>
<p>Of course, NYC didn’t actually outright ban $ABNB.</p>
<p>They simply made the company do what it <em>says </em>it exists to do: Allow people to rent out rooms in their homes.</p>
<p>But that’s not what Airbnb actually does, does it?</p>
<p>Sure, some people let strangers stay in their spare room for a night, but that’s mostly just desperately broke or head-scratchingly greedy people.</p>
<p><strong>Airbnb’s cash cow is turning family homes into full-time clerkless hotels</strong>.</p>
<p>NYC did the math and said <em>enough is enough</em>.</p>
<p>Every full-time Airbnb = a homeless family + increased rent and purchase prices for everyone else</p>
<p>Homed families + more affordability > unearned passive profits to Airbnb’s parasitic shareholders.</p>
<p>So New York laid some ground rules:</p>
<p><a href="https://survivingtomorrow.org/airbn-banned-new-york-finally-cracks-down-on-illegal-landlords-4649f0aaef1e"><strong>Website</strong></a></p>