[oifjsidjf]

House and food should be treated completely differently then other non-essential goods like entertainment and electronics.

Destroy housing -> destroy people's future and family creation.

Air b&b is cancer for people trying to start families as it destroys all local affordable housing.

[pydry]

It's not housing-as-a-good that's a problem it's the land.

Land owners didnt create the land. Rights to land are always acquired, ultimately, through violence.

Land owners dont make it valuable - a good teacher drives up her own rent.

Supply and demand work in reverse. The more land owners buy and hoard it the more valuable it becomes.

Unlike, say, income taxes, which discourage work, taxing land just discourages hoarding and unproductive use. Higher taxes would thus relieve shortages on top of bolstering government budgets.

Airbnb isnt a direct cause of those shortages, it just partook in the rent bonanza driven by the global property hoarding frenzy. Banning or strictly regulating it in tourist hotspots is probably a good idea but doesnt resolve the underlying problem.

[chx]

> income taxes, which discourage work,

you are out of your mind

[dorchadas]

Living in a city heavily impacted by it, I couldn't agree more. People love it, because they feel entitled as tourists to live like locals, at the expense of the actual locals. It's literally all about entitlement, while forcing the negative externalities on the community you came to visit! Outta sight, outta mind.

[aleph_minus_one]

> because they feel entitled as tourists to live like locals

Rather: they feel entitled as tourists to live in a Disneyland version what they imagine to be the locals' lifes.

[carlosjobim]

Tourists don't "feel entitled", they rent apartments because hotels and guesthouses are full, or the price is cheaper, or they think the price is cheaper. Tourists have no blame in this - they book what is on offer.

[SwiftyBug]

And on top of that there's nothing in renting an AirBnB that provides a "local" experience. It's an ego-based illusion of experiencing the local life at best.

[FredPret]

And I guess you yourself are the exception in that you are entitled to living in a tourist-free city, and all the tourist-dependent businesses in your area and all the tourists that want to visit can go to hell?

Maybe we should just build enough housing for everyone.

[mantas]

And neither should focus on just „build more houses“ or „grow more tons of food“. Both must be high quality in terms of (mental) health as well as environment.

[lachstar-x]

You must construct additional pylons.