@iammusing
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Sad that The Shed in Glasgow is closing and even sadder to hear about the mysterious fire that will happen there in 4 months time before it's turned into student flats.
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Most residents are keen to show off their community with visitors, but when tourism wants become the priority for local authorities rather than residents' needs, and people get displaced from their community, residents feel that they have to fight back to rebalance their economy.
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Replying to @thecockburn
@Airbnb landlords in Edinburgh are clearly struggling under the current regulations to get their businesses established.
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Replying to @thecockburn
@Airbnb landlords in Edinburgh are clearly struggling under the current regulations to get their businesses established.
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What folks don't realize re: STRs is that these are untaxed unreported cash cows. Hosts do not STR because they want to meet people & make friends. They do it for the MONEY! & hosts/platforms have no problem breaking any laws or common decency to make their MONEY.
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Life as the only Edinburgh locals surrounded by holiday lets in a Royal Mile stair edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edi…
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Largest set of keyholders I've seen in one place. You? ( and 🤔 where?)@PLACEEdinburgh @thecockburn
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The whole concept of Airbnb was hijacked by people looking to make quick money in short term renting (better ‘yield’ than actual tenants)…but these visitors should be staying in hotels and other types of holiday lets designed for it, not taking away homes for longer term renters
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“In 2016, we had just under 6,000 apartments listed on Airbnb; today we have almost 14,378,” says mayor of Florence – noting that during that time the average cost of ordinary monthly residential rents had leapt 42%.theguardian.com/world/2023/o…

Florence bans new Airbnbs and short-term rentals in historic centre

Italian city launches crackdown in attempt to free more homes for locals

theguardian.com
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150 High Street, Royal Mile
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There's more but mixed in with other photos I've taken but aye
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How Airbnb uses and trains hand picked local hosts around the world to present a skewed picture of their business model in the media. We have shown that #Edinburgh 'superhosts' presented in the media were running businesses outwith the law. #RollOnOct1 thenational.scot/news/238082…

AirBnB could bypass lobbying rules and ‘mislead MSPs’ about licensing scheme

TRANSPARENCY campaigners have called on the Scottish Government to reform lobbying rules amid a pushback against short-term lets legislation...

thenational.scot
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If you rent out a room or property on a short-term let basis you need to apply for a licence by 1 October. Find out more about who needs to apply and why edinburgh.gov.uk/shorttermle…
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amusings@iammusing8 Feb 2021
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In Bristol plenty are on bookingdotcom to try and avoid being tarred with the Airbnb brush. They sit outside many figures Iv seen and they have no support for neighbours of these properties.
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'On our heat map of Britain’s most Airbnb’d postcodes, #Edinburgh is scorching. Five years ago a photograph of a block of flats just off the city’s Royal Mile made headlines because of the 11 key safes lined up beside its front door.' thetimes.co.uk/article/4a68e…
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In 2018, the Danish gov and Airbnb signed an agreement about the transmission of hosts’ income data. These data made it possible for the Tax Agency to identify hosts, retrieve their social security numbers, and contact them, which drastically reduced the potential to evade taxes.
Patrick Dunleavy@PJDunleavy19 Jan 2023
How data sharing between platforms and tax agencies affects short-term rental markets | EUROPP blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2…
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I live in a Cornish seaside village + one local guy owns many @AirBnBs starting from £200 a night. Yet there's a single mum – who works full-time – living in a tent behind the churchyard, while her 3 kids stay at their grandparents' 1-bedroom council flat.
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I was recently looking for a new room to rent in London. Here's some of the outrageous/bizarre/probably illegal things I encountered 🧵
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OLD KIRK, Holyrood Road. Does anyone know why this is permanently (?) locked & boarded up? Is there a story? @EdinOldTownCC @TheCrannie @PGKeady @thecockburn @theAHSS @EdinburghWH
Old Kirk, Holyrood Road, Edinburgh, 10 August 2022

ALT Old Kirk, Holyrood Road, Edinburgh, 10 August 2022

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