I trust the city government to keep the neighboring landlord from turning his apartment buiding into a ghetto hotel without the proper noise-mitigation measures, more than I trust AirBnB to do it.
In many areas AirBnB isn't a problem, mainly when it's being used as a way for regular people to rent out spare rooms or their apartment. But in NYC and London, people are starting to run larger-scale traditional hotel operations, only without following any of the regulations for traditional hotels. There, AirBnB's failure to implement any kind of replacement for municipal regulation is most noticeable, especially in its impact on other people's property.
> I trust the city government to keep the neighboring landlord from turning his apartment buiding into a ghetto hotel without the proper noise-mitigation measures, more than I trust AirBnB to do it.
You do? Section 8 ring a bell? Many more landlords and governments agencies have turned apartments into ghetto hotels than individual Airbnb hosts. And the result has been a spike in the murder rate:
So USG is using tax dollars to move in murderers next door, and landlords are taking those dollars. Yet one trusts USG to "protect" you from a ghetto hotel?
In many areas AirBnB isn't a problem, mainly when it's being used as a way for regular people to rent out spare rooms or their apartment. But in NYC and London, people are starting to run larger-scale traditional hotel operations, only without following any of the regulations for traditional hotels. There, AirBnB's failure to implement any kind of replacement for municipal regulation is most noticeable, especially in its impact on other people's property.