New York City Finally Proposes Strict New Regulations for Airbnb Rentals (marketwatch.com) 137
New York City "is pressing ahead with a long-anticipated crackdown on Airbnb hosts," reports the New York Post, "with officials on Friday proposing a strict new registration system for hosts that will take effect in January."
There's 30 pages of rules... Under proposed rules that were quietly and unexpectedly made public on Friday — which will, among other things, prohibit hosts from renting out an "entire registered dwelling unit" — Airbnb hosts will be required to submit diagrams of their apartments as well as proof that their listings are permanent residences. Hosts also will be required to list the "full legal name of all permanent occupants of the dwelling" as well as their relationship to the host....
If hosts fail to comply, they can be fined up to $5,000 under the new rules, while Airbnb and other platforms are required to verify the rental on its systems and could be on the hook for a $1,500 fine per violation. Last year, the city council passed the registration law, but little was known about the details and requirements, which will become effective Jan. 9 and enforced by May 9....
Among the requirements, said the source, is one that bars hosts from putting locks on doors that separate the guest from the host, directing that "a registered host shall not allow a rentee to have exclusive access to a separate room within a dwelling" and specifying that, for example, "providing the rentee with a key to lock the door when such rentee is not in the dwelling is prohibited...."
It's the latest salvo in the fraught relationship between New York City and Airbnb, which has long pushed back on the city's efforts to regulate the industry. Meanwhile the city blames Airbnb, in part, for its housing shortage.
Thanks to Slashdot reader quonset for submitting the story!
There's 30 pages of rules... Under proposed rules that were quietly and unexpectedly made public on Friday — which will, among other things, prohibit hosts from renting out an "entire registered dwelling unit" — Airbnb hosts will be required to submit diagrams of their apartments as well as proof that their listings are permanent residences. Hosts also will be required to list the "full legal name of all permanent occupants of the dwelling" as well as their relationship to the host....
If hosts fail to comply, they can be fined up to $5,000 under the new rules, while Airbnb and other platforms are required to verify the rental on its systems and could be on the hook for a $1,500 fine per violation. Last year, the city council passed the registration law, but little was known about the details and requirements, which will become effective Jan. 9 and enforced by May 9....
Among the requirements, said the source, is one that bars hosts from putting locks on doors that separate the guest from the host, directing that "a registered host shall not allow a rentee to have exclusive access to a separate room within a dwelling" and specifying that, for example, "providing the rentee with a key to lock the door when such rentee is not in the dwelling is prohibited...."
It's the latest salvo in the fraught relationship between New York City and Airbnb, which has long pushed back on the city's efforts to regulate the industry. Meanwhile the city blames Airbnb, in part, for its housing shortage.
Thanks to Slashdot reader quonset for submitting the story!
Thank ****ing God (Score:5, Insightful)
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You save on heat during the winter that way.
What will that do? (Score:2)
it's about time. It's getting to the point where even well above median income you can't afford to live.
And you think this will help in the slightest... interesting.
NYC was already a terrible place to have an Air BnB, so there were not many. Most of the ones left already basically comply, where you are renting out a room and not a whole place (I know this because two different times I tried to rent out an apartment in NYC, years ago, the city made them drop the Air BnB listing before I even went on my trip
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I hope that means "non-residents", not "non-citizens". Imagine living as an immigrant in the US and having permanent residency but not being allowed to buy a property because you don't have citizenship.
Good point, not banned (Score:1)
Looks like permanent residents (and students) are not banned in Canada [npr.org].
That does make sense, they are trying to stop foreign investors really, not so much individuals who have to live in the city.
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I hope that means "non-residents", not "non-citizens". Imagine living as an immigrant in the US ...
What they should say is a Non-Citizen may not be sold the ownership to bare land, and may not be sold the ownership to property containing a home or individual dwelling unit for Investment purposes that they didn't pay to construct, And cap what the median per-dwelling unit rate of rent per building is allowed to be for new constructions.
If they are a resident intending to live there, and they can show they
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Wonderful in principle, but how do you stop the Panama corporation owned Delaware corporation from buying property without impacting legitimate local businesses too?
The UK has the same problem in London. A large number of buildings sit empty because they are little more than a tax-sheltered investment for rich foreigners such as Russian oligarchs and Saudi princes. One of the purposes of the UK's Stamp Tax (a tax levied on each sale of a property) is to prevent real estate speculation from driving up pric
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but how do you stop the Panama corporation owned Delaware corporation from buying property without impacting legitimate local businesses too?
A good start would be to firstly mandate a US-based principal be the Only parties that interest in real Property rights can be conveyed to By a Deed or contract. A contract or deed will be unlawful if it specifies Real estate to be transferred without receiving and recording complete authentic, notarized Attestation documents of Resident or US Citizen status with the
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A vacancy tax would be far better and get rid of misbehaving investors whether they are Chinese or Canadian.
This is why I don't like the right wing (Score:2)
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Either he's in a trailer park/slum where undocumented immigrants are living (yes, they stack 20+ adults to one house in some circumstances), or he's in a city with hostile zoning laws. Some parts of the country do not have this problem, yet AirBnB operates in those places as well.
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I wonder if it will really help though. Will the owners throw up their hands and sell now that they can't be an AirBNB, or will they just switch to the long term rental market?
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Will the owners throw up their hands and sell now that they can't be an AirBNB, or will they just switch to the long term rental market?
Either is preferable, obviously.
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Google says there are 3.5 million dwellings in NYC, and somewhere between 10k and 20k AirBnB (or equivalents).
Regardless of how you feel about AirBnB (I have never used it, don't really trust it) there is no way that 0.3 - 0.6% of housing be used as an AirBnB, even if it's 100% use for rental and not an actual home, would have any appreciable effect on the overall market.
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The smaller the percentage of housing available, and there is usually a very small percentage of unoccupied dwellings in NYC, the smaller the percentage of dwellings have to be taken off the market to cause a shortage.
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Long overdue (Score:5, Insightful)
These "sharing" economy should go back to actually sharing, rather than an excuse to go around existing regulations.
Re:Long overdue (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Long overdue (Score:5, Insightful)
Every single one I have ever seen has just been an end run around labor law or zoning regulations.
That's the whole point of the Gig Work Economy - people (typically of well above median income) finding ways to circumvent regulations, mostly at the expense of lower income individuals.
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Lower income individuals? Are they setting up AirBnBs in trailer parks and housing projects now?
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Lower income individuals? Are they setting up AirBnBs in trailer parks and housing projects now?
Yes.
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That's the whole point of the Gig Work Economy - people (typically of well above median income) finding ways to circumvent regulations, mostly at the expense of lower income individuals.
Well, that's not the original theory. The original point was there's tons of capital not being used as much as it could. Sharing was a way to make better use of all that expensive, underutilized capital. For example, I drive my car maybe an hour a day. It's a waste to have it sit idle the other 23. Could, perhaps, I make use of it by sharing with others? Well, people don't actually like just giving strangers the keys to that morphed into driving "friends" around for a fee. Same for AirBnB: I have a spare ro
Regs are only preventing "exclusive access" (Score:3)
Iâ(TM)m sick and tired of these rapacious mom and pop entrepreneurs flouting regulations by letting people lock their doors.
They can lock their doors, they just can't have the only key. The airbnb hosts would have keys too, just like the hotels. And when in your room you would have the same right to privacy as in a hotel, including locking the door. The regs are only preventing "exclusive access".
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I think the door locking rule might be trying to prevent the renting of individual rooms to separate customers, rather than renting the entire house or condo to one party.
Alternatively: Some residences (apartments and even condos) do not allow the owner to make keys. The association/management company controls all keys, and the "owner" is only given a limited set, usually onr or two keys. Getting additional keys (e.g. for your kids) is not easy, and each key is registered to a justified, documented individu
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These "sharing" economy should go back to actually sharing
How does one go back to something they never did in the first place?
In cities line NY (Score:4, Interesting)
NY residents are fucked (Score:2)
NY residents are fucked because the city cannot finance it's massive budget otherwise than to puncture and dry out each and every possible revenue stream. --get a Chargehanger
Re:In cities line NY (Score:5, Interesting)
When the pandemic hit and people were fleeing central London, it because apparent that a huge amount of the central housing stock was being used for AirBnb. In the small area around where I lived within Zone 1, at least 30-40 apartments suddenly got listed as long term lets that were clearly being used as AirBnb previously (the listing photos were in many cases right off AirBnb and many had the same furnishings and stock pictures on the wall as they were being run by the same management companies). Another thing I realised is how this was being done on an industrial scale - we tried to rent an AirBnb near us during the lockdowns as our studio flat was tiny, and the AirBnb 'host' told us that they couldn't go below a certain price because they wouldn't be making any profit on the rental. This didn't make any sense (surely any income is better than none) and I eventually discovered they were just the final tier supplier in a sophisticated chain, and under them was another organisation that probably owned lots of flats in the area and leased them out to 'retailers' who could fill them off AirBnb/OneHome/Gumtree etc.
The thing is though, permanent short term leasing like this was supposed to be banned in London already. We got told by the govt back in 2016 that they were solving the AirBnb issue by passing a law to limit short term lets of a property to only 90 days in a year. So how were these guys able to do it? In the end I looked into the govt regulation, and realised that compliance with the law came down to the local council, who had no power to demand records from AirBnb, and hence if they wanted to enforce the ban, they had to collect evidence that the property was being let for more than 90 days in the year. Beyond posting a council officer outside the property for 91 days of the year, this was essentially impossible to enforce, and so for all practical purposes it wasn't.
So be careful with these promises of 'regulation' because in the UK they have proven to be completely hollow, even though the govt is happy to stand up and say it has fixed the problem and all the residents priced out by these psuedo-hotels just need to suck it up.
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In cities like NY, commercial rental companies love Airbnb. All it does is inflate already high rents in the City. I would like to see this passed, but I would make a minor adjustment. The fine is $5000 per day for each violation.
No, low supply and high demand is what drives prices up. All AirBnB is doing is exposing what the market clearing price really is. Previously it was hidden by invisible lines of people who wanted to rent but couldn't because nothing was available at any price.
Want to really fix that? Build more. Build 50 story apartment buildings all up and down every subway line, not just limited parts of Manhattan. Double or triple the number of units in the city.
There's 30 pages of rules (Score:1)
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Re: There's 30 pages of rules (Score:2)
Paperwork of this type is often created to justify gov't employees' jobs. Of course everyone not paid to deal with this shit get screwed over.
Airbnb's are great for tourists (Score:2)
Like always, too much of a idea good ends up having bad consequences. Airbnb's are great for large groups of people, especially families visiting a place. It is usually much cheaper and nicer to stay together in a single home/apartment for your holiday. Normally this works great but it backfires in very popular and expensive places like New York where it exacerbates a housing crises. The flip side is that all those tourists bring in money to the city supporting jobs and businesses.
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Like always, too much of a idea good ends up having bad consequences. Airbnb's are great for large groups of people, especially families visiting a place.
Holiday home rentals were a thing long before airbnb showed up, and will remain long after airbnb is relegated to the annals of history.
hotel lobbying (Score:1, Flamebait)
I can see how happy you all seem to be with these news, I am quite certain not all of you are lobbying for hotels, so then what is it? Oh, I got it. You don't actually believe in private property rights, so to you a government preventing people from using their own property in a way they prefer is abhorrent. Oh well, you also believe this will *lower* the prices somehow? As if government regulations are ever capable of removing costs? Curious. Of course you are also the same people that argue for high
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Re:hotel lobbying (Score:4, Informative)
I will tell you. In the USA these zoning laws created the urban sprawl and made it impossible for people in the suburbs to walk to a store, you have to drive everywhere. Designating entire swaths of land as noncommercial in the strictest sence. It is not just "don't put a metal factory near a house, but don't put a store, a coffee shop, a bakery, a bar, a hair salon, anything near a house, houses are sacred and cannot be near some place of business that makes living comfortable". Zoning bylaws are responsible for traffic jams, fuel burning and plenty of global warming, obesity and other sickness, ghettos and segregation, unequal education opportunities and much more. I am sure there are people who study such things and I am sure zoning bylaws are a disaster in every way but one - forcing you to pay more in costs and taxes.
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In the USA these zoning laws created the urban sprawl and made it impossible for people in the suburbs to walk to a store
Food deserts are not primarily caused by zoning, they are caused by it being unprofitable to serve poorer communities. Every suburb I have been to to has a comfortably located supermarket, those people have shopping options because there's profit in serving them.
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Not that simple.
Most hous
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I will tell you. In the USA these zoning laws created the urban sprawl and made it impossible for people in the suburbs to walk to a store, you have to drive everywhere.
Ummm, so you are complaining that you live in the suburbs. Why don't you just live in the city, which is wnat you want?
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Imagine how people live surrounded by stores and shops and bakeries and kindergartens and everything...
https://www.alamy.com/stock-ph... [alamy.com]
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so 330,000,000 people all chose these particular zoning bylaws? In a country that large and really diverse it is quite curious, how is it that the same nonsensical idea applies to everyone and there is no area where a different set of rules could even be attempted. The destruction of local business follows these bylaws and thus people have fewer choices of where to shop and where to work as well, never mind the increased pollution of having to truck everything everywhere instead of preparing things really
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so 330,000,000 people all chose these particular zoning bylaws?
Yeah, pretty much. Sorry you were late to the party. But the good news is that they change them from time to time, too.
Although most people don't want to change them, and oppose the increased density that is proposed.
You should just move to the city. You don't see that as an option because you can't afford it, or don't actually want the reality of these conveniences you pine for.
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You actually believe people using their own property in a way they prefer without limits is OK, then you won't mind if you neighbor starts a business holding raves in his backyard every weekend from 10:00 pm Friday night to 4am Sunday morning.
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I really don't mind, I lived in dozens if places in my lifetime, including where I purchased apartments with restaurants downstairs that are blasting music loudly at night as well.
However I am talking about zoning bylaws, not local noise and pollution laws, they are different laws.
I had it wrong... (Score:2)
So, I have never used AirBnB but I had kind of gotten the impression that folks were basically using it to rent out entire apartments/ houses for short term stays etc (like hotel or typical beach house rentals etc)
Even though "Bed And Breakfast" is ... in the name I somehow got the impression it was not being used for B&B but for the above.
Or is this unique to NYC?
About right for NYC (Score:2)
I understand what the city is trying to get at, but the rules listed in the summary seem vague and nonsensical.
Par for the course for NYC.
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Re: If you bought NYC real estate in the past... (Score:1, Troll)
Re:If you bought NYC real estate in the past... (Score:5, Insightful)
Waaaahhhhh I run an unofficial hotel and have to follow the same regulations as the rest of the industry.
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Hotels aren't allowed to give room keys to their guests?
Remind me never to stay in New York City.
Well, no keys that keep that keep hosts out (Score:3)
Hotels aren't allowed to give room keys to their guests? Remind me never to stay in New York City.
Hotels don't give room keys to guests that prevent staff from entering. I think that is what the city is getting at here. Notice the wording elsewhere that prohibits guest exclusive access to a room. The summary is probably just being a little looser with the terminology and creating confusion.
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So the AirBnB host can satisfy that rule by just keeping a copy of the key to the internal door? If so, that seems like a dumb rule by the city -- I would expect most hosts to do that anyway.
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So the AirBnB host can satisfy that rule by just keeping a copy of the key to the internal door? If so, that seems like a dumb rule by the city -- I would expect most hosts to do that anyway.
Yeah, that rule seems a non-issue. The city seems to be saying nothing more than a guest cannot have an exclusive space. Forcing their stay to be more comparable to that of a hotel. When the room is occupied the visitor could lock the door and the host would need to respect privacy to a degree, just like hotel staff. But like hotel staff they have the right to enter an unoccupied room at their convenience to clean and perform other types of maintenance.
In short, the city literally wants airbnb to act lik
Re:Well, no keys that keep that keep hosts out (Score:4, Insightful)
That's a nice theory, but it's not what actual lawyers say [singhranilaw.com]:
As I suspected, the city is not actually making AirBnB follow the same rules as hotels. These rules are much more restrictive than what hotels follow.
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I'm not going to look up all the laws and regulations that NY hotels have to follow, but based on codes that I am familiar with in other places, I imagine there are many more regulations for hotels (and regular BnBs) that AirBnB does not yet have to follow.
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It's more restrictive than what homes normally follow for their own household, and it is Not the government's business to even try and do this - Try to dictate that you must have an insecure residence. Probably this can be Unconstitutional taking without paying property owners the fair market value for their property owner's rights to their own space being taken to serve interests other than the property owner's.
Roommates sharing an apartment or condo often have this situation where individual
locks a
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The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated
I think a lot of this hinges on abuse where it isn't even "their house" in that they aren't even living there and instead are just using that space as a hotel.
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And yet, New York requires firearms to be inaccessible to minors and people who cannot legally own a firearm.
New York City is just screwing their citizens again and again.
Why do they keep electing these people who cater to special i
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You got it backwards.
Airbnb's business model is pretending that the space is being rented as a host accepting a guest within their home. Airbnb is pretending that the host is not running a hotel.
Almost nobody has rooms in their home that require a key to enter that the owner and family cannot enter at will.
So, NYC says, if you pretend you're not a hotel, then you can't be like a hotel.
Re:If you bought NYC real estate in the past... (Score:5, Informative)
Waaaahhhhh I run an unofficial hotel and have to follow the same regulations as the rest of the industry.
No, that's the entire point of this new regulation.
If you want a key to your own room, you have to go an actual hotel, not an AirBnB.
"providing the rentee with a key to lock the door when such rentee is not in the dwelling is prohibited...."
Re: If you bought NYC real estate in the past... (Score:2)
I hope NYC sticks up on rape kits.
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I hope NYC sticks up on rape kits.
What happened to you as a child to make you think the only thing stopping rapists running amok is the front door being locked? If you think this is how people act then maybe you need to psychiatric help.
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.. make you think the only thing stopping rapists running amok is the front door being locked?
Building security is a huge part of increasing the chance that attempted criminals will be caught - it increases how much time they must be present at the scene of the potential future crime, which increases the chances of being seen by other eyewitnesses. If people can get in and out quickly without facing a hassle, then all sorts of criminals would run rampant at a higher rate.
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As private as a hotel, hotel and airbnb have keys (Score:2)
If you want a key to your own room, you have to go an actual hotel, not an AirBnB. "providing the rentee with a key to lock the door when such rentee is not in the dwelling is prohibited...."
I expect the summary is being a little loose with its phrasing of things. Notice the wording elsewhere that prohibits guests from having exclusive access to a room. You get exclusive access neither in a hotel nor airbnb. The hotel staff has a key to the room, so would the airbnb host. That said, while in your room you probably have a right to privacy, in both a hotel and airbnb. Such privacy does not seem in conflict with non-exclusive access.
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"providing the rentee with a key to lock the door when such rentee is not in the dwelling is prohibited...."
They're just going to change to doors with a door handle that only opens freely from the inside 'Always locked on the outside', and guests scan a Face or Fingerprint, or other biometric to gain entry, instead of using a key.
This way the door is locked just like a bathroom door is locked (Whoever is in the room can open it, but noone outside the room can open it without scanning a matching biometric)
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You (and others) seem to be misreading this. The locks you are talking about only work when the renter is IN the room. These regulations are about the renter being unable to lock the room away from the owner when they are OUTSIDE the room and have no effect on what the renter can do when in the room.
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If you want a key to your own room, you have to go an actual hotel, not an AirBnB.
The staff at a hotel are able to open the rooms.
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And I can't rent out places that I don't own, or don't even exist!
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Correction: If you bought NYC real estate in order to exclusively rent it out as an AirBNB without any intention of living in it, you're boned. ... and you deserve that fate.
Can you be fascist and communist at the same time? (Score:4, Insightful)
"Finally" as IF people were waiting for more disastrous interference from the fascist commie AF govt in NYC. C'mon fascists, I await your knee jerk junta 'troll' label on here to prove my point.
First of all, isn't it technically impossible to be a communist and fascist at the same time? They have opposing views on property ownership.
More importantly, this seems to be pretty popular among NYC residents, especially if it slows rent inflation. Also, NYC represents approx 0.007969% of the geographic United States.
If you find the practice of preventing the ultra-wealthy from buying up property, causing rapid unnatural inflation of prices and rent, and leaving the units vacant so they can rent them out on AirBnB while waiting on the price to appreciate as onerous...may I suggest you move to the other 99.99+% of the United States and enjoy your life there?
Also, have you considered perhaps your nonsensical hyperbole and lack of a clear explanation of your actual views the reason you're labeled a troll? You can pretend to be persecuted, but from what I see, you just made a vague and inarticulate complaint about NYC imposing regulation that is popular with their residents. You didn't provide the slightest clue as to why you object to the regulation or why the regulation was unwise. You didn't provide suggestions as to superior ideas. So yeah...you sound like a troll...giving you the very most benefit of the doubt, you're an inarticulate complainer who is not contributing anything to your cause or the general discussion.
IMO, your cause, if you even have one, would be better served explaining why life is better if we listened to you...instead of just complaining about everyone else....or you're just a troll.
Fascist and communist at same time? Absolutely Yes (Score:4)
Can you be fascist and communist at the same time?
Absolutely yes. Fascism, by its own definition, does not fit on that one dimensional political spectrum. It considers itself a third option that incorporates ideas from the "left" and "right" as needed to attain and retain the state's power. The power of the state is the only really important thing under fascism, everything else is flexible, subject to current practicalities. Fascism like syndicates. You can have a labor syndicate with all sorts of commie like ideas, so long as that syndicate is under state party supervision and control. You can have industrial syndicates with their rich getting away with almost anything, so long as that syndicate is under state party supervision and control, and the previously mentioned "anything" isn't intruding on party/state areas. The state finds these competing syndicates convenient to play against one another, as practical necessity dictates. All ideology other than party/state control of everything is flexible. Although militarism and syndicalism are pretty common.
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Can you be fascist and communist at the same time?
Absolutely yes.
Absolutely no. You literally cannot be fascist and communist at the same time, because fascism is a capitalist ideology. It literally means that the people with the money are writing authoritarian laws. But communism is a political system that among other things lacks currency, so it is fundamentally incompatible with fascism. You can have other kinds of authoritarianism under communism, but you literally cannot have fascism. You don't actually know what any of these words mean, so you are absolutely unqual
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No fascism does not mean rich people write the laws. That's plutocracy.
Fascism means (very simple version for you) the corporations working hand in hand with the state like we see today with Big Tech and a few other industries.
Words have meanings. You don't get to make up your own definitions and get taken seriously.
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Fascism means (very simple version for you) the corporations working hand in hand with the state ...
Not quite. Your phrasing suggests some sort of arrangement between equals or near equals. Absolutely not. The corporations are absolutely subservient to the party/state. Just as organized labor is absolutely subservient to that party/state. Both may exist, at a given moment either could be favored. Playing them off of one another is part of the methods of control, to weaken both.
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Can you be fascist and communist at the same time?
Absolutely yes.
Absolutely no. You literally cannot be fascist and communist at the same time, because fascism is a capitalist ideology.
No it is not. Fascism will incorporate communist ideas and capitalist ideas. Fascism is not a single point on the one dimensional spectrum, they consider themselves are an alternative to both, a third way.. A particular fascist government on a given day will occupy multiple points on that line, some in the communist region and some in the capitalist region. Again, it is an ideology that will coopt ideas from anyone if that idea can be leveraged today. They are very practical in that sense.
It literally means that the people with the money are writing authoritarian laws.
No it does not. Fa
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First of all, isn't it technically impossible to be a communist and fascist at the same time? They have opposing views on property ownership.
No, they don't. Fascism isn't a coherent political philosophy in the way you are thinking about it. See for example:
https://sites.evergreen.edu/po... [evergreen.edu]
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That's glib. The vast majority of people have to live fairly near where they work and can't just up and move and expect to find a job that matches their skill set a
If that bothers you, you probably don't like NYC (Score:3)
That's glib. The vast majority of people have to live fairly near where they work and can't just up and move and expect to find a job that matches their skill set and salary (even adjusted for living costs of the area).
Well, first of all, if a huge majority of your area supports something...yeah, it makes sense to move rather than forcing all of them to adapt to a numeric minority's will. I am confident if you hate interference with wealthy property owners, there are many other things you don't like about NYC. Sorry...you may have to hop on the Metro rail and commute in like everyone else.
Secondly, this is just a potential kick in the nuts to property speculators...who are a cancer and I can't wish enough ill on th
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"Finally" as IF people were waiting for more disastrous interference from the fascist commie AF govt in NYC. C'mon fascists, I await your knee jerk junta 'troll' label on here to prove my point.
First of all, isn't it technically impossible to be a communist and fascist at the same time? They have opposing views on property ownership.
LOL, no. It's impossible to be both at the same time because "fascist" is nowadays a generic slur the leftists use against everything they don't like, and they very much like communism.
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One dimensional political spectrum doesn't work (Score:2, Troll)
I'm not sure if you are trolling, or do not understand that commies and fascists are literally on opposite ends of the political Spectrum.
You exhibit a very common misunderstanding. The fascists don't believe in that one dimensional spectrum. They believe themselves to be a third option, one outside that spectrum and/or simultaneously at as many points on that spectrum as they find expedient, with the sole in-volatile principle being that everything is under the authority of the state. Everything else has some flexibility involved, so nearly any concept can be coopted to attain and retain the power of the state. Concepts from both the left an
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The fascists don't believe in that one dimensional spectrum.
It doesn't matter what the fascists think they are if, like you, they don't know what words mean. It's also not a one dimensional spectrum. Fascists are corporate authoritarians, that's two axes. You don't know anything about anything.
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Fascists like Hitler and Mussolini described themselves as socialists. They are socialists/communists just at different levels and scales, where Marxism wanted to take over the world, Hitler believed it could only be done at nationalist levels. Hence the name national socialist (nazi).
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You literally do not know the meaning of the words you use.
Fascism does not mean what you think it means. You've been corrected several times on this today.
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The fascists don't believe in that one dimensional spectrum.
It doesn't matter what the fascists think they are ...
LOL. Yes, ignore how the fascists describe their ideology and the political organization. Accept only the Neo-marxist definition.
... if, like you, they don't know what words mean.
Again, your error is in thinking this is an English lesson. No, it is a History lesson. And your definition does not match history.
It's also not a one dimensional spectrum. Fascists are corporate authoritarians, that's two axes. You don't know anything about anything.
Fascists actually like to describe themselves as a point off that one dimensional spectrum. They don't add a second dimension. They just place themselves off that line indicating the erroneous simplistic nature of that left/right political model.
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People all over the country are eagerly awaiting legislation like this. Some of them don't know it though, they just want to be able to afford someplace to live, and this is simply absolutely necessary for that.
If you don't like it, consider that some people will not be content with remaining homeless, and if you just weren't in your home, they could live in it! And they know this, and there are more of them than you.
You and yours have forced them onto the streets, don't be surprised when they force their w
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So you think Airbnb is the root cause of homelessness.
If you were even as smart as me, you'd be able to read
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I am waaaaaaay smarter than you.
That's what your nickname says, but I've seen no evidence of that so far.
And so is almost everyone else here.
Some are, some clearly are not. If nobody was, though, I'd fuck off immediately. I enjoy learning.
Most of your posts are either mindless ad hominem
That, sir, is a crock of shit. You wouldn't know ad hominem if you even saw it. You have not the first fucking clue what it even means.
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I read your posts. You're an A#1 example of ad hominem.
Tell you what, I'll talk to you again when you learn what these words mean.
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That only happens to people who forgot to turn off curly quotes on their Apple mobile devices.
Standard ASCII single quotation marks--the apostrophes we've all been using since our first home computers--have always worked just fine here.
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I don't like the term "antisocial" in this case. Withdrawn. Maybe. Hypervigilant (taking great caution as to not get fucked over by other people), YES.
I don't like fake smiles or anything else of that nature. Makes me very suspicious as if they have something they really want to hide.
- From 45 years of dealing with so many bad, and downright psychotic people, a few who had tried to put me in a deadly situation. I don't trust people in general, and I approach them like I would an animal I do not know
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Perhaps you can stay in NJ? (Score:2)
I have four kids and hotels suck with kids. AirBnB letâ(TM)s us have beds in the same house community space and a kitchen. Even when traveling alone as someone whoâ(TM)s anti social I prefer Airbnb. Check in at hotels is a lot of people showing you fake smiles and offering to carry your bags (for a tip). I feel like I have to fake smile back, and if you need something you have to talk to someone. As opposed to airbnb where you get your key from a lock box and can text to communicate.
First of all, this impacts NYC. That's an expensive vacation for a family of 6, generally. However, legit AirBnBs will still be around and if you can't find any, there are many many many places a short subway or commuter rail ride away that arent impacted and will probably be much calmer place to stay at for your anxiety. NJ is very nice now.
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Everybody is misreading this. They are just saying the guest cannot lock the owners out of their room when they are not in the room themselves. This is exactly how hotels work: the owners and staff can enter the rooms, but when the guest is in the room they can lock the door from the inside (every hotel I have ever been in has the ability to throw the bolt and also a secondary "chain" (rarely a chain nowadays) lock).
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A lot of these people do not own the properties they are renting out as AirBnB.