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> Allowing landlords to buy up housing supply to rent by the day drives up prices for the 90% who need a house to live in them not profit from them

Notice how the conversation is always about a limited supply; never about how the cities could remove barriers for larger, denser constructions. Wonder why that is.




We should fix the other problems but if we fail to or in the meantime we ought to prevent the existing problems from being exacerbated by Airbnb.


Maybe because not everyone is interested in living like an animal in crowded apartments?


A lot of people like living in dense urban places. I wouldn't say they like living like animals.




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