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I'll repeat it forever, but minimum wage should be a liveable wage. It should be attached to some median cost of living for the area where the workers work.
The problem here is that you're competing with tourists sleeping four to a room and you just can't outbid them for apartments, even with high wages. The solution here is to set aside properties for resident locals so that they aren't forced to.
Conservative regional government is just, choosing not to do anything, despite a law passed that would explicitly help this situation.
So the local government has resorted to fining the people that don't bribe them.
It's a great system
I think going after short-term rentals is exactly what they should be doing. If they take bribes not to then that's a huge problem though.
Here is my issue with short term rentals. In theory they are needed and a good part of the economy. In practice, they are people who are jacking up the housing market and need to go away. They are a business and should be treated as such. I move often and short term rentals have been great till I can get established. That said I stayed at hotel designer for that purpose. I’m not opposed to some sfh being used for that purpose but we have way too many.
You're right. The problem is not so much the concept as what happens when residential property can be turned into Hotels by installing an app.
Exactly. I don’t mind a few unique properties as rentals. There are some really unique properties I’d love to stay in that otherwise I wouldn’t. But otherwise they are taking sfh from buyers or renters. That I’m not cool with. We need some for people who are moving. I’m fine with that.
I’m fine with vacation homes outside of metro areas. I’m fine with someone renting a room.
It’s the people who are turning it into a business I’m not fine with.