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Comment by mikeyouse | Hacker News Reader

If they were going to hotels, they wouldn't cause rent increases in residential properties... that's kind of the point..

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Really looking forward to overleveraged airbnbers, the kinds juggling 10 mortgages and causing housing shortages, to get blackswanned.

I wonder why people renting their cars on Turo(or buying cars to do so) aren't causing car shortages? Oh yeah, because there aren't the artificial constraints on supply there is on housing. Let's focus on the problem and not wish ill on those trying to provide a useful service to others.

It’s a service which even if being operated in compliance with local laws has a negative cost to the rest of the neighborhood through higher issues with noise, trash, parking, etc. There are reasons why hotels aren’t spread randomly around cities.

Living around people at any density has the same costs. Living in a city should have an implied contract that you will have these issues as costs, with numerous other things coming as benefits.

The issues of noise, trash, parking etc should be made to be internalized by those that bring the nuisance. There are noise laws, littering laws, and parking ordinances. Maybe adjustments are appropriate in some cases.

At the end of the day, anti-AirBnB laws are about control over your neighbor. The same things were said about home offices for years (and still are in some localities). The problem is, you can always point to antecdata to support your point, but we should be looking at individual violators of reasonable laws that uphold health and safety in a neighborhood - not using a blunt instrument to snuff out all new uses of property that come about because you don't like it.

> artificial constraints on supply there is on housing

I mean this sounds good and all, but in practice property owners are at the forefront of restrictive zoning regulations too.

And that is also wrong, and unjust in my opinion. When buying property, you gain a bundle of rights over the described property deeded to you. Not an infinite set of positive rights over the whole range of human activities that occur within some geographic radius around it.

Nope--they're taking units out of housing supply, demand remains the same, so prices adjust up.

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