Also fuck enshittification!

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 187 points 2 months ago (4 children)

AirBnb became popular when hotels inflated prices around certain events or were at capacity. Since then, AirBnb owners have jacked up prices to be more expensive than hotels, and you have to deal with the "landlord attitude." It turned from a genuine service into another cash grab scheme.

  • source
  • hideshow 4 child comments
  • [–] 97 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    And it also uses apartments that could've been regularly rented, worsening the housing crisis.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 37 points 2 months ago

    That applies to houses as well lol. For all of it, it goes even deeper too. It's not just that buildings that were going to be rented are now airbnbs, but that another avenue of revenue is once again tied to hoarding livable buildings with no plans of residing in them.

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    It has been years now that Air BnB has been so much worse than going through establidhed hotel/holiday rental booking methods. I'm surprised people still use it (do they?).

  • source
  • parent