Post by High Priestess on Jul 30, 2016 16:05:32 GMT
This blogger feels that Airbnb is disingenuously advertising itself as a "solution to gentrification" ---
observer.com/2016/07/airbnb-is-advertising-itself-as-a-solution-to-gentrification-to-avoid-regulation/
Also, this blog contains this statement:
This is such a distortion -- it's so irresponsible to take one rather badly done study (see here: globalhosting.freeforums.net/thread/3012/harvard-study-discrimination-airbnb-rentals ) , and turn this into a fiction about Airbnb being antagonistic to black people as a group. Clearly, Airbnb is one of the most desirable scapegoats of the time. People need a company and a business model to hate and appear to have found their victim. The housing crisis, racism, discrimination, gentrification --- What other sins of the world will the blamers find Airbnb convenient to be blamed for?
observer.com/2016/07/airbnb-is-advertising-itself-as-a-solution-to-gentrification-to-avoid-regulation/
Also, this blog contains this statement:
.....Since Airbnb is known to be unfriendly to black people ....
This is such a distortion -- it's so irresponsible to take one rather badly done study (see here: globalhosting.freeforums.net/thread/3012/harvard-study-discrimination-airbnb-rentals ) , and turn this into a fiction about Airbnb being antagonistic to black people as a group. Clearly, Airbnb is one of the most desirable scapegoats of the time. People need a company and a business model to hate and appear to have found their victim. The housing crisis, racism, discrimination, gentrification --- What other sins of the world will the blamers find Airbnb convenient to be blamed for?