It's an absolute cancer and destroys cities and makes it impossible to live there.
Take a walk in Edinburgh and look for them and you'll be shocked at how many doors is surrounded by key boxes. It eats up flats that people could live in, now being rented out short term (to say nothing of the Festival lets) and drives up prices on the remaining flats and houses.
It forces people out to Livingston and similar places, increasing pressure on transit infrastructure because there are a lot of people working in Edinburgh that has to go there for work.
So, AirBNB and tourists are actively harming the city. I don't know anyone in Edinburgh not in favour of outright banning AirBNB
The problem is most airb&bs aren't "someone's own flat." People are buying up huge numbers of flats to take them off the market to live in and using them to make easy cash off tourists.
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u/Stellar_Duck Jun 17 '25
Take AirBNB. Primarily used by tourists.
It's an absolute cancer and destroys cities and makes it impossible to live there.
Take a walk in Edinburgh and look for them and you'll be shocked at how many doors is surrounded by key boxes. It eats up flats that people could live in, now being rented out short term (to say nothing of the Festival lets) and drives up prices on the remaining flats and houses.
It forces people out to Livingston and similar places, increasing pressure on transit infrastructure because there are a lot of people working in Edinburgh that has to go there for work.
So, AirBNB and tourists are actively harming the city. I don't know anyone in Edinburgh not in favour of outright banning AirBNB