Grouping young professionals and tourists together under short term residents is a little bit ridiculous. This type of thinking seems to dominate housing discussions, that young people (or any incoming immigrants to a city/neighborhood) are a nuisance that must be put up with, and the good, ideal state of the neighborhood would be for nothing to ever change and everyone to stay where they are.
You need more housing supply in Bed Stuy with or without Airbnb. It's reasonable to try to limit Airbnb so it doesn't get too out of hand, but it's definitely not the major driver of demand today. And you won't avoid gentrification by pretending that the demand is somehow not legitimate and can be easily controlled so that you never need to build anything new.
You need more housing supply in Bed Stuy with or without Airbnb. It's reasonable to try to limit Airbnb so it doesn't get too out of hand, but it's definitely not the major driver of demand today. And you won't avoid gentrification by pretending that the demand is somehow not legitimate and can be easily controlled so that you never need to build anything new.