Articles tagged “housing”

Short-Term Rentals

Short-Term Rentals in 2024: Small Cities, Rural Areas May Soar

After a volatile 2023, next year may see demand and supply back in balance.

Srividya Kalyanaraman | 3 days ago

Short-Term Rentals in 2024: Small Cities, Rural Areas May Soar

News Blog

Airbnb and a Tenant Blocked From Listing an Apartment in a Banned NYC Building

The implementation of New York City's host registration law last month has enabled one landlord to win a temporary restraining order against both Airbnb and a host from listing a short-term rental in an Upper West Side apartment building that put itself on the Office of Special Enforcement's banned building list. An NYC home that…

Dennis Schaal | 3 months ago

Short-Term Rentals

Airbnb’s First Senior Housing Economist Digs Into Urban Impact

The housing market is nothing if not complex. Airbnb wants to leverage data to convince cities that its benefits are under-appreciated.

Dennis Schaal | 3 months ago

Airbnb’s First Senior Housing Economist Digs Into Urban Impact

Short-Term Rentals

Europe’s New Ideas to Reign in Short-Term Rentals

Today's edition of Skift's daily podcast looks closer at short-term rentals in Europe, global tourism investment, and Dubai’s hot Russian summer.

Rashaad Jorden | 3 months ago

Europe’s New Ideas to Reign in Short-Term Rentals

Short-Term Rentals

Hong Kong Hostel Program Aimed at Tackling Housing Shortage and Political Dissent

Hong Kong has a hotel-to hostel conversion program under way to target a housing shortage. It also aims to diminish pro-democracy sentiment.

Clare Jim, Reuters | 6 months ago

Hong Kong Hostel Program Aimed at Tackling Housing Shortage and Political Dissent

News Blog

Airbnb Warns a Puerto Rico Bill Would Essentially Ban Short-Term Rentals

Pending legislation in Puerto Rico would limit the use of short-term rentals in residential areas to 30 percent of the property, a move that an Airbnb official characterized as a "defacto prohibition." An Airbnb in Rincón, Puerto Rico. Source: Dennis Schaal/Skift "Thousands of properties in Puerto Rico could be deleted or eliminated, which provide this…

Dennis Schaal | 11 months ago

Short-Term Rentals

Puerto Rico Short-Term Rental Growth Exacerbates Housing Crisis: Report

Puerto Ricans aren't merely imagining that Airbnb and Vrbo have transformed their neighborhoods — sometimes negatively. Here's a report that quantifies the housing impact.

Dennis Schaal | 1 year ago

Puerto Rico Short-Term Rental Growth Exacerbates Housing Crisis: Report

Business Travel

Mexico City Faces U.S. Remote Worker Surge Amidst Large Wealth Gap

Unless Mexico City authorities take concrete steps to rein in the short-term rental market, stories about local residents being priced out of their neighborhoods will continue to be all too common.

Alberto Fajardo, Roberto Ramirez and Josue Gonzalez, Reuters | 1 year ago

Mexico City Faces U.S. Remote Worker Surge Amidst Large Wealth Gap

Hotels

Airbnb Set to Provide Temporary Housing for 20,000 Afghan Refugees

While it's uncertain where the Afghan refugees will eventually be resettled, Airbnb's decision to house them temporarily will undoubtedly give them a new lease on life after being evacuated — and the homesharing giant PR bonafides.

Sanjana Shivdas, Reuters | 2 years ago

Airbnb Set to Provide Temporary Housing for 20,000 Afghan Refugees

Business Travel

How the California Wildfires Are Impacting Tourism

Several years of devastating wildfires have taken a toll on California tourism but have not affected overall visitor numbers. Instead, the fires have changed the way the state markets itself and made it harder for tourism employees to live in California.

Maria Lenhart, Skift | 4 years ago