> There are currently 733 short term lets available to holidaymakers across the county on Airbnb. On property rental website Daft.ie, Co Wexford currently has just 21 properties to rent.
I don’t think Airbnb should be completely banned but there definitely needs to be more legislation around how long an Airbnb can be on the market, or tax increases for full time rentals, and the rules should actually be enforceable and enforced.
People have been asking for this for about 5 or 7 years now?
Government will nod their head saying there seriously looking into it, then release legislation with no enforcement to kick it down the road for another few years.
You’d need a breakdown of those figures. How many are in specific holiday spots that would have been holiday homes in the past. How many are in people’s homes?
Wouldn’t taking away Airbnb reduce beds? I mean there are a lot of people happy to give a room in their house for a set period of time but wouldn’t be happy to actually rent out the room full time
If there is a yearly limit for a property to be rented on Airbnb wouldn’t that fix the problem? Like Amsterdam was planning (or did already not sure) you can rent your house for 30 days per year. Then they can leave the places vacant or list it on local market at least?
We don’t need emergency legislation, we need those in charge to enforce existing legislation.
Most of these properties will not have the required planning permission for short term lets.
I don’t know about this sort of thing.
I mean on one hand we are in the midst of a disgusting and quite scary housing crisis.
But on the other hand, our entire legal, cultural and political foundation is built in the idea of private ownership, and more specifically private ownership of property.
People should be able to rent their property on Airbnb all year round if they want to.
Of course the real issue is lack of supply. Perhaps a better solution would be to offer a tax incentive to rent property on long term leases. A long term lease tax credit or something.
The problem isn’t Airbnb.
This legislation will solve the problem, but not in the way that people expect. Once it’s no longer affordable (or even possible?) to holiday in the area, the local employment market will suffer, which will ease the demand for rental accommodation for workers.
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> There are currently 733 short term lets available to holidaymakers across the county on Airbnb. On property rental website Daft.ie, Co Wexford currently has just 21 properties to rent.
I don’t think Airbnb should be completely banned but there definitely needs to be more legislation around how long an Airbnb can be on the market, or tax increases for full time rentals, and the rules should actually be enforceable and enforced.
People have been asking for this for about 5 or 7 years now?
Government will nod their head saying there seriously looking into it, then release legislation with no enforcement to kick it down the road for another few years.
You’d need a breakdown of those figures. How many are in specific holiday spots that would have been holiday homes in the past. How many are in people’s homes?
Wouldn’t taking away Airbnb reduce beds? I mean there are a lot of people happy to give a room in their house for a set period of time but wouldn’t be happy to actually rent out the room full time
If there is a yearly limit for a property to be rented on Airbnb wouldn’t that fix the problem? Like Amsterdam was planning (or did already not sure) you can rent your house for 30 days per year. Then they can leave the places vacant or list it on local market at least?
We don’t need emergency legislation, we need those in charge to enforce existing legislation.
Most of these properties will not have the required planning permission for short term lets.
I don’t know about this sort of thing.
I mean on one hand we are in the midst of a disgusting and quite scary housing crisis.
But on the other hand, our entire legal, cultural and political foundation is built in the idea of private ownership, and more specifically private ownership of property.
People should be able to rent their property on Airbnb all year round if they want to.
Of course the real issue is lack of supply. Perhaps a better solution would be to offer a tax incentive to rent property on long term leases. A long term lease tax credit or something.
The problem isn’t Airbnb.
This legislation will solve the problem, but not in the way that people expect. Once it’s no longer affordable (or even possible?) to holiday in the area, the local employment market will suffer, which will ease the demand for rental accommodation for workers.
A housing crisis in Wexford?
Hell has well and truly frozen over.
Every fuckin county should do this