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gypsy11

(397 posts)
6. Airbnb investors
Fri Jun 20, 2025, 10:48 AM
Jun 20

Are pretty bad too. I’m not talking about a person renting out a room in their house that they live in for some extra cash. I’m talking about the investors that are creating little boutique hotel empires out of every single entry-level priced single family home they can get their grubby little hands on. It’s a real problem in so many areas.

For example: where I live? I’ve watched the number of “entire home” full-time (that is, no one ever actually lives there) Airbnb's EXPLODE from a few hundred houses in 2021 to a few thousand in 2025. That’s a few thousand families that are shit out of luck as far as housing goes. In ONE small city.

I don’t think people realize how awful this is for communities. It breaks a social contract, drives up the cost of housing (both rents AND sales), and absolutely obliterates neighborhoods.

Stay at an actual hotel in places zoned for commercial use.

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