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How Airbnb accidentally screwed the US housing market and made $100 billion (www.arktrek.shop)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

https://www.insideairbnb.com

Just gonna leave this here. Pick your favorite city.

edit: guess we killed it. But there are a lot, a lot

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Jesus. I can't find an affordable apartment in Boston but "Blue grounds" is listing fucking 372 of them on Airbnb....

EDIT: so Blueground is the biggest property holder in almost every city? Or one of the top 5 in the places it isn't #1. What the hell?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

There are whole 30 story apartment buildings which are managed and run like a hotel but with units purchased by owners for STRs. Crowd-sourced hotels. So might be that company managing a whole building.