JA WestenbergIf anyone’s wondering what the dude who sang “chocolate rain” is up to these days, he’s dropping absolute bangers about housing and he’s fucking right
Matthaus Woolard@Daojoan yer we have the same issues in NZ as well. I woud also limit short term rental (airBNB) to only permit if the freehold title owners live on sight and are onsite during the stay. (Eg a farm can have an airBnB cabin but a townhouse or apartment in a city can’t be an AirBNB, a room within a home can be though)
Jennifer Moore 😷Interesting idea!
Would you allow the situation where someone AirBnBs their _own_ house while they're away?
Zimmie@unchartedworlds @hishnash That’s potentially open to abuse. “I live there, I just travel 364 days out of the year.”
Some occupancy ratio based on the national minimum paid time off could be interesting. If federal standards say full-time workers get two weeks of PTO per year, you can rent out your house while traveling for up to two weeks per six months.
@unchartedworlds @hishnash Yeah, it’s just that when proposing policy, you have to think like an evil djinn. That’s basically what billionaires are, after all: amoral, insatiable hunger for *more* (djinni are the people of the fire, after all), and entertained by tricking people.
@unchartedworlds The simpler one is to ensure the tall the freehold owners only own this property.
Eg you cant have short term rental on a title if any of the title owners own any other property. This would shutdown 99% of the AirBnB property investors.