Hotel prices is getting expensive because of airbnb

GrahamPhelan agreed. Hotels are too greedy, and have been for a long time. It's free enterprise/competition.

GrahamPhelan I agree that hotel prices have been high but now with hotel sites competing and advertising one hotel room against another, I think that has changed. I am indifferent to Airbnb but I also don’t live in close quarters to my neighbours. People on vacation, or students in some cases are partying into the night while the guy next door is trying to sleep for work. It also is taking away rental units from people trying to live in the area. If these people need income to stay in their homes then get a roommate. I did that all through my twenties to make ends meet.

Hotel prices aren’t high, wages are low. But that’s a different story. Airbnb is a cancer and they never fail to send out their online minions to spout their talking points in comment sections, as with the comment above. I hope one day the event they host is a going out of business sale.

Also, one person renting 30 units, or whatever, IS a hotel. De facto.

weirdshibainu the chains have no soul, no personality should you be traveling for experience

No doubt. I much prefer a motel. It's usually cheaper and leaves more money in the budget to actually see the place I'm visiting. I think a lot of the people renting Airbnb's are the hipster types.

@@slerickson01 no one gonna stay inside while traveling they be seeing the area

-> So they would rent them by the week, month or year. Then they would go home on weekends to their wives and kids. They would also provide home cooked meals for little xtra that included laundrying. It’s the hotel industry that’s pushing for all out band, why pay $500+/- for one night stand, for half that you can stay at room and board for couple days. Also I noticed during the interviews of every clip o came across on this subject, they always say the poor suffers cause of shortages of housing, as a result of these room and boards. Truth be told shortages of housing markets are brought on by heavy regulations and these illegal land grabbers through both epa & conservation as well as indanger species laws that are used for bullying tactics. And of course section 8 housing as well as welfare along with heavy government regulations. If the hotels wouldn’t charge so much and the unions weren’t lobbying for outrages $$$$, maybe they can attract more customers.

Facts

Going back to basics. Hate all the rules folks and governments put in place. Things used to just be simple.

Do you realize that Air Bnb is a billion dollar global tech company and not a local mom & pop?

Kendriana Speaks but supports home owners and property owners who work with and app

Some cities are. Like Japan and NY are cracking down on Airbnb rentals. I think some rules are you have to actually live in the listing full time and you are limited to renting it out nor more than 2 months out of the year. Something like that.

I like these proposals. If there's ever a public hearing or townhall on STR's in my city (Austin, TX) and I can attend, I might try to bring them up in there.

@@melodramatic7904 I'm in NYC. The rule is that you can't list a whole unit rental, but there is a cut out for 1-2 family homes (not as common here). NYC is also trying to force Airbnb to take down illegal rentals or disclose the posters. Airbnb has been fighting tooth and nail on that one. When you are providing a whole house/apartment for short term rentals only. You are essentially operating as a hotel without having to pay the additional hotel taxes or comply with the building codes specific to hotels.

@@SaharBaghaii Thanks for clarifying. I'm glad that NY is taking action to prevent residents from being displaced. It wasn't that long ago that I watched a news profile on full time Airbnb renters in NY and how the looming legislation might affect them. I didn't think it would become law anytime soon but it did! The only other place I know that was that fast is Japan. Go NY!

bluetimmy so u want government to dictate how many properties you can buy , next u be happy for government to tell u what eat

new york and california aren’t examples of good places either. they’re falling apart socially.

You're right. We need more laws

Oh please no, NY and CA are regressive states ran into the ground by socialist policies. Don't spread your failed DemoKKKrat policies into the heartland.

@dangboof actually it helps the economy.

@@gwaiwohng2181 stfu asshole. Air bnbs are tearing my city apart.

That is not the issue at all

They have become a nuisance with their over-inflated prices and hidden fees.

Ryan Delacore I hope you are not insinuating that poor blacks created New Orleans culture, because that’s not at all true. New Orleans culture is multicultural with white and black cultural, culinary and architectural influences. New Orleans has not been majority black for most of its existence. Germans, Irish, Jews and old time southerners once made up uptown and French, Spanish, Germans and Italians once made up downtown. Mardi Gras, New Orleans’ biggest cultural product is French in origin.

Actually, in the 1800s the number of people of African descent out numbered the Europeans in New Orleans. Look it up.

NeighborhoodTolerance Actually let me correct you on a few things that you don’t have all the details to. Zydeco is not from New Orleans. It is from Acadiana (southwest Louisiana) and it is indeed multicultural. It is the blending of Cajun music and R&B. Although Zydeco’s creators were black Creoles, it incorporates Cajun music into its repertoire and Cajun music comes from Cajuns, who are indeed white folks. However, Zydeco is from Acadiana and is not New Orleans culture. Moreover, blues is not from New Orleans either. It is from Mississippi and is not New Orleans culture. So to recap, both zydeco and blues are not New Orleans culture. Now we can move on to actual New Orleans culture. Jazz music is indeed multicultural. It has a large black component to it yes, but there is also a white component to it. The first recorded jazz record was from a white band known as the Original Dixieland Jass Band in 1917. Historic White bands such as Stein’s Dixieland Jass band, Brown’s Dixieland Jass Band and Papa Jack Laine’s Brass band highly influenced Jazz as a musical style. Without the influence of these early jazz bands, Jazz would not sound like it does today. Jazz is not solely of black influence. One of the most famous Jazz musicians in Jazz history was a white Creole named Alcide “Yellow” Nunez. Among the white influences on Jazz music, the Sicilian Italian influence was very strong. Many Jazz musicians in New Orleans in the beginning of the 20th century were of Sicilian Italian descent like Louis Prima and Nick LaRocca and Jazz adopted Italian melodies and the lyric Italian trumpet sound. Jazz music is not black music, it is multicultural with influences from both blacks and whites. In fact, that leads us to the next topic you mentioned, second lines. Although second lines do have a strong influence from blacks, again Sicilian Italians have their mark in second lines. Second lines are based on the music from brass bands. It’s a documented fact that New Orleans brass bands found in secondlines and New Orleans jazz are based on Sicilian Italian brass bands that have been part of Sicilian Italian culture all over southern Italy for ages. New Orleans had a large Sicilian Italian population and this population influenced Jazz and brass bands, two things secondlines are based on. So yes, secondlines are part of New Orleans culture, but although it is largely black there is a white element to it in the form of Sicilian Italian brass band history in New Orleans and also it’s connection with jazz. Bounce music I’ll give that to you, that is solely black music. But although that is a part of New Orleans culture now, I wouldn’t call it traditional New Orleans culture. It’s origin is as recent as the late 1980’s/early 1990’s. The food is indeed multicultural. Mardi Gras however is of French origin in New Orleans and is tied to the Catholic branch of the Christian religion and celebrates the last day of feasting before the start of lent. This is done through celebration. There is a black Mardi Gras krewe called Zulu and has a long history in New Orleans, but this was a black addition to a white festival as all the other krewes are historically white. When New Orleans is mentioned all over the world, it is the world class architecture that is among the first things spoken of. The architecture of New Orleans reflects its European origins from France and Spain as well as the American south. As the city was founded by the French and filled up with French people and later with Spanish people, their architecture spread throughout the city. Even the French and Spanish architecture of the early colonial Caribbean has influence in New Orleans from both Haiti and Cuba. In the days following the Haitian revolution most of the white Haitians fled to New Orleans and added the same architectural styles they created in colonial Haiti known as Saint Domingue. Spaniards arrived from Spain, but also from Cuba and brought the architectural influences they created that resulted in the creation of Havana, Cuba. New Orleans architecture is a blend of all of this. My own ancestors were among the early settlers of New Orleans and among the group that created New Orleans out of wilderness. White Creoles continued the architectural creations of their French and Spanish ancestors that first settled the city. These are all the topics you mentioned. So no, half of New Orleans culture is not black. New Orleans culture is multicultural. Some things are black like bounce music, some things are white like Mardi Gras and some things are fully multicultural like the food. Also, the Catholic branch of Christianity was brought to Louisiana with the French and Spanish and even the New Orleans Saints football team shows this heritage in its name Saints, just as Mardi Gras celebrates this connection with the feasting through celebration before lent. That’s why it’s called Fat Tuesday in French, because of the feasting and celebration before Ash Wednesday of the Catholic branch of the Christian religion. Taking all these aspects of food, music, architecture, religion and celebration, New Orleans culture is a multicultural culture with a large white component and a large black component and even a minor Native American component from early New Orleans when the Tchopitoulas, Choctaw, Houma and Acolapissa Indians inhabited the New Orleans area. New Orleans culture is not mostly white or mostly black or even Native American...it’s a mix of all of these and belongs to all of us. From a white Creole to a black creole.....we share this culture despite racial differences. Even the New Orleans dialect is shared by all local New Orleanians and the surrounding area. New Orleans culture is multicultural.

Honda Jack lol I agree, Democrats are a mess lol

Honda Jack I like the Mississippi coast and they have their own unique history and culture. But I wouldn’t say it’s better lol as I’m a New Orleanian and obviously I’m biased to think New Orleans has a better culture. I go to the Mississippi gulf coast often for the casinos and the beach.

Good for you.....

Honda Jack, I agree!!! That is just invasive and a roommate is really just a similar stranger.

I prefer hotels too. A hotel-like Air BnB is way more expensive than an actual luxury hotel stay and without the conveniences.

Pretty AwesomeJM, there could be bedbugs, high crime, a crazy neighbor, certainly less security than a hotel, its all too creepy for me.

Lol lazy

Stop it. The areas that have t recovered were already tore up before Katrina. Most of it is better now than before.

lynda Thackrey happening in Jamaica 🇯🇲.

You are a Republican and you don't know it yet

Shes right, its personal freedom

Amen! 💥👊😁

Wait till you and your black ass will kick out of your own house where youve been raised and born. And they sell it to a rich Chinese or Russian etc.Even if they pay your house with their dirty corruption money.Because you can't afford to live there anymore.

No shiiiit!!!! Lolol

Really, dude? That’s what you have to say after watching this?... at least the “hotel industry” isn’t robbing hundreds of residents of their homes in their own communities...

OBVIOUS SPONSORED CONTENT BY THE HOTEL INDUSTRY! And no coincidence this BS hit piece is about New Orleans, where the local hotel industry is battling to eliminate short-term rentals.

Aren't these people who are operating AirBnBs on a commercial basis as it was stated in the video like defacto hotels? Except they don't have regulations in place to protect the people in residential areas.

Yea I did see the area looked questionable... As a female, I wouldn't feel safe

Nope. You are the solution. Once airbnb's supply outweighs demand, buyers benefit from lower prices.

They're part of the problem. They themselves don't own the properties, but they provide a platform for those who are set up to abuse it. When AirBNB first came out, they helped home owners make a bit of extra cash by letting them list that they had a room or area of the house to rent out to travelers on a budget. Just like they said in the video, there are still people who are using the platform in this way...the way the service was intended. The issue is there are people who are buying up properties that would normally go to people who actually want to live in these cities, neighborhoods, and the owners are running defacto hotels while AirBNB does nothing to stop them. The company continues to promote their service on the principal that these are homeowners who are looking to make a few extra bucks by renting a room or two, but so many of them don't live, and never have lived, in the homes they are listing and making basically a living wage on this venture alone.

Liani Thomas Prewitt And again it’s not Airbnb fault! TF

It is. If Airbnb just limited the amount of houses that can be rented out in one city, the problem wouldn't be half as big. Or if they restricted people from renting out complete houses. They're just money hungry and don't care about actual people who get displaced because of their service

People selling their homes isn't a problem. Property owners with new orleans born/raised tenants are evicting them because they can charge airbnb users more money than a typical new orleans family. Our neighbors are not leaving voluntarily

Nitaawe I understand, but again, that is not Airbnb’s fault. It’s the property owner who is being greedy. Yes, it’s terrible, I love New Orleans, I don’t want it to change, so I understand why you’re upset. Residents need to take this issue up with the city and see if there can be something done to stop the owners from turning these homes into, basically, cheap hotels. The issue is the owners, I’m very sorry.

@@ExitLight Taking it up with property owners stirs up a lot of broader issues, some constitutional, and that is something that people like me do not have the funds or legal knowledge to handle-- especially since property owners in this city are characteristically very very rich and have corrupt connections which have been sown over many generations. New orleans has a lot of skeletons in its closet. So: I am saying, Airbnb, a relatively new company, could develop some restrictions against whole-house rentals and number of properties per person. Much more practical and immediate solution

The money is what’s important. Tourism is good for local businesses owned by local people.

They are buying properties in multitudes that people rent and pay for on time and kicking them out. When your home is sold the new owner can evict you with only three months to find new. If they doing this on huge scales....there won't be a new orleans to visit cause everybody is pushed out the city. This is why home ownership is important

Over tourism can ruin the charm and character of a city. Look what's happening to New York and Barcelona.

@@jamesjohnson1050oh well. 🤷🏿‍♂️it’s the locals that selling their own cities out. When it’s about the Benjamin’s it seems it’s f**** the city.

@ZionHillCalling you mean less ghettos? Good, owners are selling their old houses for a higher price due to the demand. Economic development is a good thing, not a bad thing.

You just broke that's all