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n3vd0g t1_jcga0at wrote

Reply to comment by filenotfounderror in Nearly 1,500 buildings ban Airbnb and other short-term rentals by fluffykintail

  1. Vienna’s city government owns and manages 220,000 housing units, which represent about 25 percent of the city’s housing stock. https://www.huduser.gov/portal/pdredge/pdr_edge_featd_article_011314.html Not suggesting all, but would like a substantial amount.

  2. Excuses. No reason we can’t work for a better government

  3. Yeah in that it regulates stock to maintain affordability and availability and allows for government ownership of dignified low income housing

  4. You really think the current rental prices aren’t already theft from one generation to another? Regardless, this is what social security is supposed to be for. We shouldn’t be encouraging owning rental properties as a means to retirement. Retirement should be a guaranteed right, but not like this. Regardless, this is unsustainable and I’m not going to cry over lost profits since society would still be for the better. Like come on man

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n3vd0g t1_jcg9358 wrote

Reply to comment by the_lamou in Nearly 1,500 buildings ban Airbnb and other short-term rentals by fluffykintail

> Vienna’s city government owns and manages 220,000 housing units, which represent about 25 percent of the city’s housing stock. https://www.huduser.gov/portal/pdredge/pdr_edge_featd_article_011314.html

Yet still a substantial amount is owned by the government and the program is wildly successful. It is very very different.

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upnflames t1_jcg8myz wrote

Reply to comment by mowotlarx in Nearly 1,500 buildings ban Airbnb and other short-term rentals by fluffykintail

Airbnb is becoming a catchall term for STR's these days - truth is, you really don't need Airbnb to stay booked anymore. All you need is a direct booking website and a small budget for Instagram ads. That's how I get about half of my bookings. My rental is legitimately registered with the town it's in, so I'm fine either way, but there is literally no enforcement of anything on the direct side. It would be damn near impossible for a city to catch it if that's the only place you listed.

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sammnyc t1_jcg7ef7 wrote

Reply to Nearly 1,500 buildings ban Airbnb and other short-term rentals by fluffykintail

A friend group of mine recently visited the city for a week, there were six of them. They managed to find a brownstone on Airbnb which, because it's the whole building, is within compliance of rentals under 30 days.

There's only so many of those, though. They looked at hotels, of course no rooms had space for the whole group, no kitchen, etc. Add on resort fees (sorry, 'urban destination' fees), and rooms are easily over $350 a night.

I don't know what the solution is, and sadly don't have one to offer. But saying pricey hotels or bust is a disappointing future imo.

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IAmGoingToSleepNow t1_jcg62ar wrote

Reply to comment by NetQuarterLatte in Nearly 1,500 buildings ban Airbnb and other short-term rentals by fluffykintail

I wonder if it will. Guy's probably got the verbiage in his lease already that the unit can't be used for short term rental.

> Once it does, platforms such as Airbnb or Homeaway will be unable to process payment for a guest trying to book an unregistered unit

How will the city reject payment? I'm pretty sure they can't approve/deny CC transactions where they're not involved.

We'll see if AirBNB plays along. If they don't, I don't see how enforcement will work.

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