What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - Did AirBnB Need to Go?
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4.3 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 22 September 2023
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
The sword of regulation, which has been swinging over New York AirBnBs for over a decade, is falling at last. But will new laws for short-term rentals have the effect housing advocates are hoping for? And after many failed efforts, can these laws actually be enforced?
Guest: Heather Tal Murphy, Slate writer covering tech and business.
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| 0:00.0 | Like a lot of Airbnb hosts, especially back in the day, Evelyn Bedia rented out her |
| 0:09.4 | home to make some extra cash. |
| 0:11.9 | And her story is that she got laid off from a job. |
| 0:15.6 | She wanted to make some extra money. |
| 0:16.9 | This was pretty early in the Airbnb days. |
| 0:19.4 | That's Heather Murphy. |
| 0:20.5 | She writes about business and tech for Slate. |
| 0:23.2 | Heather talked to Evelyn for a story she recently wrote about Airbnb in New York City. |
| 0:27.9 | And she realized, ah, she could rent out part of her home. |
| 0:31.2 | She ran out part of her home. |
| 0:33.0 | That's a completely separate unit for people. |
| 0:35.3 | And then she also rented out her actual unit. |
| 0:39.7 | And she did this for many years. |
| 0:40.9 | She credits it for helping her pay her mortgage and helping her kind of shift even professions |
| 0:45.5 | as this been sort of this Airbnb expert. |
| 0:48.7 | And then, you know, then she got wind that things were really going to shift. |
| 0:52.5 | And it didn't feel worth it to her at that point to continue to stay in New York City. |
| 0:57.7 | For a long time, Airbnb was great for Evelyn. |
| 1:00.4 | And then, the hammer fell. |
| 1:03.0 | Earlier this month, a new law went into effect in New York City that changed the way short-term |
| 1:07.5 | rentals work. |
| 1:09.6 | Under the new rules, short-term rentals, like the ones on Airbnb or VRBO, are only legal |
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