I chuckled myself. Tourists spending thousands to visit the city aren't going to stay 2 hours away in another crap apartment in Jersey.
Let's entertain the idea for just a minute that you are an extended family visiting NYC. You need 2-3 bedrooms, some amount of space to spread out, and a kitchen could potentially save you some real money vs. eating out for every meal.
Hotel rooms like that really don't exist, at least for normal people. On Airbnb you could probably find a comfortable luxury condo that checks every one of those boxes and saves you thousands of dollars compared to booking 3 hotel rooms.
Plenty of hotels have rooms with two queens that can comfortably sleep 4 people.
If staying in a hotel isn't convenient or affordable I'm sorry? Perhaps one day you can figure it out.
Airbnb could have gone to fix that. Why leave it to regulation?
when? they’ve had years. companies can’t logically fail to address a well known problem and then complain when regulations happen. there’s a sure way to slow regulations—address problems that you know will lead to regulation. don’t do… nothing, and then complain.
Sometimes we’ll cook dinner in our unit too, especially for our kids. If you’re in a city for several days, you get tired of your kids eating pizza and burgers every night because nothing else is familiar (and they do too). They welcome a healthy home cooked meal with the simple foods they are used to. As such going grocery shopping in our new city of residence is a key early part of every trip.
I think the anti-AirBnB narrative also misses a couple of other things:
- this is a huge win for hotels, and one they have lobbied for fiercely.
- there are people who own apartments in NY that couldn’t afford to live there if they weren’t able to earn some money from renting out their space on AirBnB.
Lastly, I’m willing to bet that the housing crisis in NY will continue unabated despite this move.
Yes, but also turning every apartment into a potential revenue source puts upward pressure on rents.
So there are also people who cannot afford apartments in NYC because of short-term rentals.
Do we know how many? How much of an effect is this expected to have on rents?
Is there a particular reason why extended stay hotels don't work out for that kind of stay? They typically have a kitchen, fridge, and laundry facilities.
They're more or less common in different countries, and sometimes are fairly pricy, although perhaps not compared to several hotel rooms. I've seen them most often in places you'd expect families to visit, like non-city tourist destinations.
Isn't new jersey right across the river from new york, with rapid transit lines going into new york? Your "2 hours" estimate seems wildly inflated.
In Chongqing, map apps will often recommend a "nearby" restaurant which actually is several hundred meters away, vertically; you'll have to descend many stair steps before arriving at that restaurant, even though it looked so close on the map. In other words, the restaurant was not actually "close", when it comes to the time and energy investment required.
In this same spirit, New Jersey is absolutely not "close" to Manhattan, even if it looks close on maps. Traffic sucks, public transportation sucks, bridges and tunnels suck.
Staying in Jersey City or Hoboken could definitely be an option for people who don’t need to be stumbling distance from bars.
any rentals less than 30 days are not allowed unless it’s a room in your house, that you live in, and you have to be there, present, while the guests are there.
[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/05/nyregion/airbnb-jersey-ci...