I mean, they could. They probably won't though. They can barely do it when it's handed to them through a multi billion dollar company, the odds of them tracking a direct booking through a private site is slim to none.

The person doesn't even have to be a US citizen to pull this off. Create a US LLC, rent the apartment through a broker, hire a shady property manager under the table and run the whole thing remotely. The only reason people use Airbnb is because it's easy. If they made it harder, people would just go around.

And you sound disturbingly like so many of the white racists i grew up with, that I was so fortunate to escape from. I wouldn’t raise my kid around people like you if someone gave me an entire free house in whatever suburban queens neighborhood you lord over.

I promise you that cutting MTA's budget won't magically cause it to reform by itself. The MTA needs major structural reform to address underlying structural issues, but that's a plodding years-long process with lots of political bargaining that needs to be driven by pols who are willing to take on a messy fight. Cutting the budget without reform in place is going to make MTA take the easy route to cutting costs: cutting service.

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“Fanatics” lol. You mean people who think more people should have a better shot at home ownership or affordable rent? Also not shocked at all your moms house sold for so much. People with generational wealth often like to protect it at all costs while denying the chance to build it for those they deem undeserving.

You don't "owe" me a thing, but you're also not owed a neighborhood that conforms to your desires, and it's unethical to use regulatory capture to enforce it. Your community is a single neighborhood, my community is an entire city.

Course he is.

“I see nothing wrong with literally overtly racist zoning laws that have been used for decades to keep towns like mine whiter.” Honestly if you know nothing about the racist history of zoning laws perhaps you should, I don’t know, shut the fuck up?

Nope

Oh honey. I grew up in a town a hop Skip and jump From Douglaston. My youth was spent dealing with whiny, sometimes hysterical, often overtly racist white people decrying the increasing diversity in the town, ie, the arrival of many more black and Latino people in their once comfortably majority white town. If you think some of these places aren’t bastions of racism I have a bridge to sell you.

I’m so sick of these pricks. Society doesn’t exist to protect your one family house. Asshole.

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The MTA themselves would rather give OT than hire. You know how long people wait for a call to work for the MTA? MTA doesn't want to pay for healthcare, etc for new hires when they can just give OT

> Imagine owning a home, getting sent on military deployment and that home just sitting empty rather than it be legal to rent it out while away.

I’m not sure I see the problem here. Besides, how many active military personnel without families also own homes?

> Imagine your children are accepted to a great college far away but they can’t go because you can’t afford to buy a second home near that college.

No one said universities can’t have dorms.

> The problem is the shortage of housing units.

The shortage of housing units is certainly a problem, but the price inflation landlording necessarily creates is also a major problem.

they can make the fine and penalty so punative you would reconsider taking the chance... eventually they will find a way to track. Itnot that hard without giving away too much

I'd love to see another look into the MTA, preferably by multiple outside agencies.

It's frightening how they seem to keep losing money and how our subways cost multiple times more to build than they do in Europe.

It's about half of all subsidized units, and has been in major drawdown mode for a while, shifting more units from government-owned to private-owned-but-regulated.

Their biggest advantage when it comes to housing prices is the ability to grow outwards. The city is essentially surrounded entirely by farmland, and as their population grew they were able to easily build new developments on what was formerly empty fields on the outskirts of the city. This is where a lot of the subsidized units come from - relatively recent new development undertaken as a public/private partnership.

NYC is not only incredibly densely populated (about 3x Vienna) but that population density extends out throughout the immediate metro area. For NYC to replicate it would require either deploying large swaths of small homes in the outer borroughs and converting them to midrises (which will cost billions upon billions of dollars and piss off a ton of long-time New Yorkers,) OR start building city-subsidized units in Duchess County and out near Dover, NJ.

exactly. it should be illegal to have these apt's not be used here. we should write legislation that if a building or unit stay unoccupied for more than 2 yrs then it's either able to get bought out or it's fined heavily for every single month that it's continued to be unoccupied for.

It should be citiwide ban and fines starting at 10K for AirB you don't live in. Here in NYC

Yeah that's what was the head scratcher for me, too.

Even con men need good sleep 😂

“Expensive mattresses” ?

Where can I buy glass in Manhattan? Cannot find anything online or google maps. I dropped a small frame and need a rectangular sheet of glass to replace the broken one.

Well there it is, I am now forced to admit that landlords should be made illegal.

What’s the first step? Passing legislation that requires all landlords to either stop renting property or turn over their property to the state?

My when my property value keeps increasing? That'd be nuts. Also, I don't live in Douglaston. The fanatics haven't come for my area yet.

Fuck Airbnb. I'll rather get a hotel now than them since they have gotten so expensive. I miss when they were for the broke people lol.