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Scale Ruins Everything

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175 points drc500free | 1 comments | 14 Oct 24 17:34 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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endo_bunker ◴[14 Oct 24 20:09 UTC] 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 ◴[14 Oct 24 20:53 UTC] 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. Spivak ◴[15 Oct 24 13:31 UTC] No.41848397[source]▶
But getting rid of it doesn't lower them or even slow the increase.

https://medium.com/chamber-of-progress/new-nyc-data-shows-th...