Timeline for Why did Berlin freeze the rent prices as opposed to letting the market set the price?
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| Feb 28, 2020 at 15:39 | comment | added | Criticizing Israel not allowed | (Fereinwohnungen = "vacation dwellings") | |
| Feb 28, 2020 at 8:48 | comment | added | antipattern | I don't think AirBnB is much of a factor here, as Berlin has already a ban "Ferienwohnungen" as they call it. | |
| Feb 28, 2020 at 0:48 | comment | added | bandybabboon | It's certainly the case in most other cities, that AirBnB pays better than normal rent, and it pushes up rental prices. That would definitely raise traffic issues if there are some, because the tourists displace the local workers further away. The worst traffic is Cannes, and Nice, France. The waiters and workers who pander to the elite queue for 1 hour in their cars to get to work in the high-season, to serve the tourists, and many of them can't even afford AC in their cars, their car goes to 35 degrees in the morning sun at 9' Oclock! it's fairly insane. every day all summer! for a pittence | |
| Feb 27, 2020 at 15:18 | comment | added | gerrit | @BjörnLarsson My point is not so much that rent control is ineffective at combating AirBnB, my point is that I don't believe it is at all given as the reason by anyone, which is why I would invite you to add some sources/citations to proof me wrong. | |
| Feb 27, 2020 at 15:18 | comment | added | Björn Larsson | @Luaan, I have no idea whether Berlin considers AirBnB a good thing or not. I'm just saying rent limitations might be a city government's attempt to limit it. If it is a good thing to do, or if it's effective is another question. :-) | |
| Feb 27, 2020 at 15:08 | comment | added | Björn Larsson | @gerrit, I'm just giving a possible reason why the Berlin government implemented a rent limitation. Your comment is asking if a rent limitations is effective against AirBnB, and that is a completely different question which I will not adress. | |
| Feb 27, 2020 at 13:25 | comment | added | Luaan | Maybe. Why is that a bad thing, though? Will freezing rent prices help with this problem? How, if it simply means that AirBnB becomes even more profitable for the people renting their flats out? | |
| Feb 27, 2020 at 13:09 | comment | added | gerrit | This problem certainly exists in Berlin, and is supposed to be addressed by legislation, but I don't see how a rent freeze is intended against AirBnB-ification. The rental cap does not apply to renting out for 3 days on AirBnB, so if any case this would make AirBnB-ification worse. Have any proponents citing the AirBnB problem arguing in favour of the rental cap? | |
| Feb 27, 2020 at 12:31 | comment | added | Criticizing Israel not allowed | Queenstown, NZ is a town in which this happened, where it has not been constrained. The linked paper's abstract says there are 200 AirBNBs for every 1000 residents. Even ignoring whatever other side-effects such a number of tourists has, that means the available housing for permanent residents is decreased by 20-50%. | |
| Feb 27, 2020 at 11:34 | history | edited | Björn Larsson | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Changed to more clear semantic.
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| Feb 27, 2020 at 10:48 | history | answered | Björn Larsson | CC BY-SA 4.0 |