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Airbnb Will Probably Get You Evicted and Priced Out of the City | VICE News
It is very little ‘cute family makes some cash on an extra bedroom’ and much much more ‘rich landlords drive out the residents of entire neighbourhoods to turn their apartments into illegal hotels that ignore all regulations that apply to the usual hotel business’.
And the company AirBnB is deliberately feeding that by not releasing information that would allow governments to combat abuse of AirBnB.
Like most parts of the ‘share economy’ where people make money by ‘sharing’ what they own, airbnb mostly serves the very rich at the expense of everyone else. It’s just another form of neoliberal bullshit. Fuck AirBnB.
(And yeah, I know there is no ethical consumption under capitalism but 90% of the time hostels are cheaper than AirBnB and coachsurfing still exists. If you want to avoid AirBnB but travel on a budget, you probably can.)
Cracked also did a pretty informative video about this last year. It’s so hard to find housing anywhere these days and after watching this video I can see that Air BnB is definitely part of the problem. And the fact that such a huge company has no accountability whatsoever is also very worrisome indeed.
The temptation of cheaper room and board while traveling is also such a hard thing to deny but the fact that this company is pushing everyone out of affordable housing just doesn’t sit well with me.
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