you lot will find a grievance with anything
Disappointing to see so many air bnbs in my neighbourhood. You can tell by the key safes. @susan4leithwalk @andywightman @clairehimillerpic.twitter.com/BRI1FhynJw
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With being cheated out of tax and having our communities degraded? Well yes. https://www.google.co.uk/amp/www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/opinion/andy-wightman-short-term-holiday-lets-need-better-regulation-1-4336964/amp …
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tourists with more money to spend in local businesses.
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Local people living in the flats would also use local businesses. That argument doesn't make sense.
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they would but an economy with tourism is much stronger because tourists don't need paid
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An economy that wrecks the local community and means residents dealing w/ anti social behaviour isn't worth having. Who is benefitting?
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tourists spend their money and leave. This leaves the money in economy. They don't need paid out that pot
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Locals also bring in money. I'm paid by EU. My OH has clients in other parts of Scotland & UK. Tourists don't bring more than locals.
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What is the problem about air bnbs?
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In addition to cheating us out of tax money by avoiding paying non-domestic rates https://www.google.co.uk/amp/www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/opinion/andy-wightman-short-term-holiday-lets-need-better-regulation-1-4336964/amp …
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Aww airbnb ensuring that people's flats are fully utilised in a busy city - lets build more hotels to stop this !
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No! They should be fully utilised by people living in them, not as cash machines for absentee landlords. Cities for people who live there.
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Build more hotels in the city centres then
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I had a couple of elderly neighbours who used these for access by carers.
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Yep, there are certainly folk who use them for carers, us included, but the majority now are for holiday lets especially in the city centre
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That’s a view. But an unscientific one.
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Claire and I have been knocking on a lot of doors recently. We've seen lots of evidence of short term lets rather than carers. Not guessing.
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Elderly/disabled people also use those to allow cleaners and carers to access, particularly if they have mobility problems.
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I have keysafe - it was there for prev. tenent so carers could go in; now for son's carers (cept can't find any to employ).
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