I agree. Airbnb isn't the issue. It's the crazy idiotic laws the government created. It makes it so NO owners want to rent out their properties for fair market rents. You have to look at it from both sides. Not just the tenants but also the owners. A compromise has to be reached at both ends.
Actually I think that they need to change the laws with tenants as well. It's too difficult getting someone out that stops paying. And the system of getting someone to co-sign for you and be a guarantor only that owns a property is antiquated.
Someone needs to think totally outside of the box here. Maybe instead of fighting with Airbnb like many other cities, Milei does something pro-business and tries to work with them to structure some good system for long-term rents as well where both sides are getting protected. There is a way it can be done with a rework of the existing laws.
You gotta start somewhere but no way Airbnb is to blame for this. I know lots of people that would rather keep their place empty vs. doing a long 3 year lease in pesos. They would be happy working out some reasonable lease but not this one. Let's hope the Senate passed the amendment.
I feel that I may trigger some controversy but this is my take.
The perspective I tend to find is that, outside the 1%, there are two classes: those with assets, and those without assets. Those with assets want to sustain a certain quality of life off the passive income of those assets meanwhile those without assets want to pursue a reasonable quality of life without giving away too much of their income acquired from labour.
The key problem with airbnb is that it gives so much leverage to asset owners with no, or negative, consideration of those without assets.
The world will always be an amalgamation of those with assets and those without assets.
I’m a fairly keen airbnb user. I’m aware that my use of airbnb perpetuates the inequality of those without assets yet meanwhile I myself am priced out of assets within my own country for the same reason. It doesn’t make me comfortable nor happy to use the services that airbnb provides but at the same time it’s not an evil thing to exercise geographical arbitrage
Airbnb is a symptom, not a cause but it does indeed supercharge the symptoms. I don’t know what the solution is, but I don’t think you should ever demonise those who work to sustain their livelihood.
I maintain that the root of all problems are those with assets that want to use them to bleed others dry to sustain their luxury though the biggest problem are the 1% who pits subsets of the 99% against each other
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. Airbnb and short term rentals are NOT the root of the issues.