ANCs: Push back on McDuffie's short term rental bill

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This activity should be restricted by most people's mortgage covenants if they have mortgages underwritten/guaranteed by FHFA, i.e. "conventional" or "conforming" mortgages.

Probably a better tact for DC government to follow would be to require mortgage owners and/or services to enforce these covenants with some penalty.

DC government doesn't need to get involved. It's a solution looking for a problem that just happens to enrich the big business hotel corporations and the interests of the 1%.

The problem is real. People buying up rental accommodation and turning it into short term rentals, drives up rents and erodes the residential character of neighborhoods. Renting out your spare room or a basement unit is no problem. Regulation is needed so that the former is stopped while providing a clear and simple process for licensing the latter.

[Anonymous]

CM McDuffie on the Kojo show today: "If you have a home and you have an English basement, you will be able to rent it out 365 days a year under this bill."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This activity should be restricted by most people's mortgage covenants if they have mortgages underwritten/guaranteed by FHFA, i.e. "conventional" or "conforming" mortgages.

Probably a better tact for DC government to follow would be to require mortgage owners and/or services to enforce these covenants with some penalty.

DC government doesn't need to get involved. It's a solution looking for a problem that just happens to enrich the big business hotel corporations and the interests of the 1%.

The problem is real. People buying up rental accommodation and turning it into short term rentals, drives up rents and erodes the residential character of neighborhoods. Renting out your spare room or a basement unit is no problem. Regulation is needed so that the former is stopped while providing a clear and simple process for licensing the latter.

Clear and simple is never what happens with DC government. This process favors the privileged. The city just wants more money and the politicians are responding to donor class.

If the city really cared about affordable housing, they would build some.

They don't need to make people trying to stay in DC pay more and go through more hurdles just to rent a room in their house.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This activity should be restricted by most people's mortgage covenants if they have mortgages underwritten/guaranteed by FHFA, i.e. "conventional" or "conforming" mortgages.

Probably a better tact for DC government to follow would be to require mortgage owners and/or services to enforce these covenants with some penalty.

DC government doesn't need to get involved. It's a solution looking for a problem that just happens to enrich the big business hotel corporations and the interests of the 1%.

The problem is real. People buying up rental accommodation and turning it into short term rentals, drives up rents and erodes the residential character of neighborhoods. Renting out your spare room or a basement unit is no problem. Regulation is needed so that the former is stopped while providing a clear and simple process for licensing the latter.

Clear and simple is never what happens with DC government. This process favors the privileged. The city just wants more money and the politicians are responding to donor class.

If the city really cared about affordable housing, they would build some.

They don't need to make people trying to stay in DC pay more and go through more hurdles just to rent a room in their house.

The city has been on a building spree wherever it can. Plus, the city gets much better results by giving developers zoning variances and having them build low income units inside mixed income properties. Low income children have much better outcomes in that environment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:CM McDuffie on the Kojo show today: "If you have a home and you have an English basement, you will be able to rent it out 365 days a year under this bill."

This is good and should be reassuring to most owners who rent as the AirBnB model originally intended. The same will obviously be true for those who rent out rooms in their personal homes.

Those who are sweating and swearing are the "professional" AirBnB managers who fraudulently take out leases or pull entire buildings off the market. They may end up in a liquidity crisis, if they've committed to a year or two year lease and then get locked out of AirBnB. Tough luck! These folks are actually AirBnB's biggest drivers of profit, so AirBnB is defending them vigorously.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:CM McDuffie on the Kojo show today: "If you have a home and you have an English basement, you will be able to rent it out 365 days a year under this bill."

This is good and should be reassuring to most owners who rent as the AirBnB model originally intended. The same will obviously be true for those who rent out rooms in their personal homes.

Those who are sweating and swearing are the "professional" AirBnB managers who fraudulently take out leases or pull entire buildings off the market. They may end up in a liquidity crisis, if they've committed to a year or two year lease and then get locked out of AirBnB. Tough luck! These folks are actually AirBnB's biggest drivers of profit, so AirBnB is defending them vigorously.

What he doesn't tell you is there will be new barriers set up to make it a lot harder for folks to rent a room in your own house.

These new hurdles and barriers favor the privileged. Will be harder for working class folks, people with significant disabilities, and immigrants, whose first language may not be English, to meet these new requirements. No reason to make our lives harder. They can always build government housing, if they really care.

Keep in mind that the political class pushing these new requirements, that disproportionately negatively impact the non-one percent, are receiving money from the hotel corporations that regularly charge hundreds of dollars a night to stay at their hotels in our city.

Let's stand with the 99%.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:CM McDuffie on the Kojo show today: "If you have a home and you have an English basement, you will be able to rent it out 365 days a year under this bill."

This is good and should be reassuring to most owners who rent as the AirBnB model originally intended. The same will obviously be true for those who rent out rooms in their personal homes.

Those who are sweating and swearing are the "professional" AirBnB managers who fraudulently take out leases or pull entire buildings off the market. They may end up in a liquidity crisis, if they've committed to a year or two year lease and then get locked out of AirBnB. Tough luck! These folks are actually AirBnB's biggest drivers of profit, so AirBnB is defending them vigorously.

+1
Good analysis here from GGW.
https://ggwash.org/view/63236/should-dc-curb-airbnb

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:CM McDuffie on the Kojo show today: "If you have a home and you have an English basement, you will be able to rent it out 365 days a year under this bill."

This is good and should be reassuring to most owners who rent as the AirBnB model originally intended. The same will obviously be true for those who rent out rooms in their personal homes.

Those who are sweating and swearing are the "professional" AirBnB managers who fraudulently take out leases or pull entire buildings off the market. They may end up in a liquidity crisis, if they've committed to a year or two year lease and then get locked out of AirBnB. Tough luck! These folks are actually AirBnB's biggest drivers of profit, so AirBnB is defending them vigorously.

+1
Good analysis here from GGW.
https://ggwash.org/view/63236/should-dc-curb-airbnb

Please read the actual law too and not just the media spin from one source. It is good he is open to changing some of the language.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:CM McDuffie on the Kojo show today: "If you have a home and you have an English basement, you will be able to rent it out 365 days a year under this bill."

This is good and should be reassuring to most owners who rent as the AirBnB model originally intended. The same will obviously be true for those who rent out rooms in their personal homes.

Those who are sweating and swearing are the "professional" AirBnB managers who fraudulently take out leases or pull entire buildings off the market. They may end up in a liquidity crisis, if they've committed to a year or two year lease and then get locked out of AirBnB. Tough luck! These folks are actually AirBnB's biggest drivers of profit, so AirBnB is defending them vigorously.

What he doesn't tell you is there will be new barriers set up to make it a lot harder for folks to rent a room in your own house.

These new hurdles and barriers favor the privileged. Will be harder for working class folks, people with significant disabilities, and immigrants, whose first language may not be English, to meet these new requirements. No reason to make our lives harder. They can always build government housing, if they really care.

Keep in mind that the political class pushing these new requirements, that disproportionately negatively impact the non-one percent, are receiving money from the hotel corporations that regularly charge hundreds of dollars a night to stay at their hotels in our city.

Let's stand with the 99%.

HAHAHAHAHA. Really? The 1% don't rent their homes out to anyone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:CM McDuffie on the Kojo show today: "If you have a home and you have an English basement, you will be able to rent it out 365 days a year under this bill."

This is good and should be reassuring to most owners who rent as the AirBnB model originally intended. The same will obviously be true for those who rent out rooms in their personal homes.

Those who are sweating and swearing are the "professional" AirBnB managers who fraudulently take out leases or pull entire buildings off the market. They may end up in a liquidity crisis, if they've committed to a year or two year lease and then get locked out of AirBnB. Tough luck! These folks are actually AirBnB's biggest drivers of profit, so AirBnB is defending them vigorously.

+1
Good analysis here from GGW.
https://ggwash.org/view/63236/should-dc-curb-airbnb

Please read the actual law too and not just the media spin from one source. It is good he is open to changing some of the language.

Did you read the article? It's incredibly balanced and fair to all views.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:CM McDuffie on the Kojo show today: "If you have a home and you have an English basement, you will be able to rent it out 365 days a year under this bill."

This is good and should be reassuring to most owners who rent as the AirBnB model originally intended. The same will obviously be true for those who rent out rooms in their personal homes.

Those who are sweating and swearing are the "professional" AirBnB managers who fraudulently take out leases or pull entire buildings off the market. They may end up in a liquidity crisis, if they've committed to a year or two year lease and then get locked out of AirBnB. Tough luck! These folks are actually AirBnB's biggest drivers of profit, so AirBnB is defending them vigorously.

+1
Good analysis here from GGW.
https://ggwash.org/view/63236/should-dc-curb-airbnb

Please read the actual law too and not just the media spin from one source. It is good he is open to changing some of the language.

Did you read the article? It's incredibly balanced and fair to all views.

Think the author was trying to be fair. Still always think it's a good idea to always read the bill language yourself. Also, reading more than one source is always helpful to make sure one isn't a victim of fake news.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:CM McDuffie on the Kojo show today: "If you have a home and you have an English basement, you will be able to rent it out 365 days a year under this bill."

This is good and should be reassuring to most owners who rent as the AirBnB model originally intended. The same will obviously be true for those who rent out rooms in their personal homes.

Those who are sweating and swearing are the "professional" AirBnB managers who fraudulently take out leases or pull entire buildings off the market. They may end up in a liquidity crisis, if they've committed to a year or two year lease and then get locked out of AirBnB. Tough luck! These folks are actually AirBnB's biggest drivers of profit, so AirBnB is defending them vigorously.

What he doesn't tell you is there will be new barriers set up to make it a lot harder for folks to rent a room in your own house.

These new hurdles and barriers favor the privileged. Will be harder for working class folks, people with significant disabilities, and immigrants, whose first language may not be English, to meet these new requirements. No reason to make our lives harder. They can always build government housing, if they really care.

Keep in mind that the political class pushing these new requirements, that disproportionately negatively impact the non-one percent, are receiving money from the hotel corporations that regularly charge hundreds of dollars a night to stay at their hotels in our city.

Let's stand with the 99%.

I understand that Airbnb is paying you to lobby, but let it go already. You sound too thirsty and not real. Stop spreading misinformation. You already needed a license.

[Anonymous]

I have to give it to Airbnb for finding this site and spreading alternative facts.