I love airbnb and am staying in one in Dublin tonight. Having said that it needs to be banned in Ireland ASAP. Totally skewing the housing market and deepening what is clearly a housing emergency in the city.
— Niall Harbison (@NiallHarbison) July 19, 2018
Ah.
Dhod writes:
I don’t think he understands what he’s saying.
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Surely Harbs has misspoke there….
Did he Trumpathise that sentence? Needs = Needn’t?
Perhaps Harby, not using a service might be more effective than getting rid of it altogether. A clean sweep of all Air BnB’s is no answer.
It must be an awful realisation for Harbs. A modern shiny web based company with apps and everything can actually have a detrimental social consequence?
For someone in the business of selling this type of gig economy, startup, popup, meaningless ,useless, neo liberal,parasitical twaddle it’s a road to Damascus moment
I heard a girl calling another girl “shiny tits” today.
That made me snigger. I wouldn’t be averse to greeting my friends in a cheery manner like that.
shiney jumper puppies ?
Ha!! Jumper puppies. I might steal that off Bodger. I like it.
Twitter not great to convey ideas but Im with him. AirBNB concept is great – as long as people dont take the *iss and start renting all year – depriving students and families affordable housing in large cities. Allow them only 3 months of the year – or less.
well said
it has turned parts of Paris into a barely living museum
28 days max.
28 days later?
Dublin- where tourists stay in houses and locals live in hotels.
…now there’s a meme…
Done correctly, it’s a brilliant facility. A limit of a few weeks per property would go a long way (for a whole property).
No problem with it, if it’s a room where the owner/occupier is actually living there though.
Spannerhead
“Protect me from what I want”
they need to stop the ones that are just let out on air bnb constantly and no one living there. air bnb was intended as a thing where you could let people stay in ur house when ur away or whatever. just put in laws to keep it like that. they shouldve done it ages ago.
Would you let your in laws stay in your gaff while away? Oh wait…..I just read that again.
Can you imagine the prep involved for your Mother in law to stay without you there, no holiday could cancel that fatigue
He needs to banned from Ireland ASAP
+1
Welcome to capitalism.
If I want to rent out one of my homes to whomsoever I wish and for however long I want then it should be none of the government’s business.
And spare me the crocodile tears for hotel chains who ramp up prices at every available opportunity then whinge like a kid with a smacked behind when they’re undercut.
In Ireland, as long as you charge less than €1K per month it is your business. Exceed that and you owe tax and it becomes the government’s business.
I rent out my apartment on Airbnb when I go away for weekends but I also think it needs to be regulated heavily- it’s not be that is skewing the housing market its the landlords who put them on for 365 days a year and make a killing (also unscrupulous renters who rent out their second bedroom to pay the rent on the entire apartment). I am all for regulation- limit it to 25 days a year max and the problem is solved (but then airbnb dont get all those service fees so fat chance of FG doing anything).
Why would anyone who’s not broke sell their house in Ranelagh to schlep about in AirBnBs with poly-cotton sheets? The mind boggles.
no idea
I just got hold of some 1000 thread count hotel jobs & I can tell you for a fact once you’ve tried them you won’t be sleeping on any poly-cotton or vegan linen crap sheets ever again as long as you’re alive
Peak awareness, as in the ESRI etc are all wrong and it is only downhill from there…
Yes, but even if it all goes belly up, you still need a place to live.
not if you have millions like lovindublin, you can write off everything as an expense until the end comes. lovindublin would in fairness be the first to go, so maybe it’s all very astute.
But, but… you still need a place to live. Is that not the point of trying to succeed in business, that you can have some material comforts. Why put yourself through the hardship of living out of a suitcase for any period of time?
What a horrible gobdaw Harbison is.
Whiff of the Peter Pan off him.