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The End of Airbnb in New York (www.wired.com)
submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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The End of Airbnb in New York::Thousands of Airbnbs and other short-term rentals are expected to disappear from rental platforms as New York City begins enforcing tight restrictions.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Downtown service businesses looking at empty offices due to WFH. "Well, at least people still come downtown for its hotels. Tourists still have lots of money to prop us up!" AirBnB gets banned, hotels start jacking up prices. "Well, #$%#."

I think offices into hotels would solve both problems, right?

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hotels require a vastly more dense plumbing structure, I don't think it's easy or cheap to retrofit onto an office building.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Hotels with dorm like shower systens maybe could work. I think something like a hostel.

That being said you cant charge much when you are forcing customers to share bathrooms.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Well, shared bathroom means zero stars so yeah, you basically can't call it a hotel anymore.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

People would still go. People go new york for new york not for a resort

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

With enshittification and being one of the worlds top tourist cities of course you can! Just look what they charge for rent. Then LA and Chicago will follow suit ;)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Offices are different in the fact that they have way more interior space far away from windows as well.

That's generally going to be a hard sell, not to mention against zoning codes in many cases.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

99% invisible just did an episode on skyscraper conversion. Its farily complicated.