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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=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."[/quote]

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. [/quote]

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%.  
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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.[/quote]

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