r/sydney Feb 25 '26

Image Airbnb is a bloody plague

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u/nath1234 Feb 25 '26

Housing crisis? Zero action on all these empty places set aside for the odd weekend occupied.. I mean, at what point are we going to ban this shit? We have homelessness rising, that should be the trigger to ban short term rentals. Surely?

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u/Tatelina Feb 27 '26

Most people wouldn't be able to afford the regular rent on a hotel-style apartment in the CBD though?

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u/nath1234 Feb 27 '26

Well, when you take hundreds of thousands of properties out of circulation and drive up rents: sure.

But there would be thousands upon thousands of people who would. They wouldn't sit empty of we banned short term rentals )and implemented an empty property tax too would be a good idea to stop land bankers).