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Scale Ruins Everything

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endo_bunker ◴[] No.41841389[source]
Comical to suggest that AirBnB "ruined communities" or "destroyed the dream of home ownership" as if decades of federal, state, and local government policy had not already guaranteed those outcomes.
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fire_lake ◴[] No.41841877[source]
AirBnB has been shown to raise residential house prices.

It’s not the only factor, or even the biggest, but still…

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1. kelnos ◴[] No.41842578[source]
> It’s not the only factor, or even the biggest, but still…

But that's the key, really. In most places, banning short-term rentals will not move the needle on housing affordability.

It's like trying to optimize the thing that's causing 3% of the slowdown when things that are responsible for 40%, 30%, and 25% are right there, staring you in the face.