The database is in its infancy but covers 11 countries so far. I realize the UX is very basic and a minimum viable product. I intend to have someone help me overhaul the design (with ReactJS perhaps) to make it mobile friendly and more appealing.
Too bad it feeds into the affordability crisis though.
Bigger picture though, there’s a major contradiction in housing around the world and that is that owners who tend to be older and more likely to vote benefit enormously from rising home prices and governments which collect property tax as a percentage of property value receive more revenue when prices rise. Both groups have grown to depend on perpetually rising property values and factored it into their long term financial plans. There are numerous ways this is achieved that vary somewhat from location to location but the result is the same. After years of housing simply eating up more and more of renters and new homebuyers income we are reaching a breaking point and governments are looking for something other than their own policies (which they have every intention of continuing) to blame.
Governments if so motivated have numerous tools at their disposal to reduce home prices, which all in all is probably easier than the reverse. There are a handful of governments which have successfully done this, but the ones that haven’t won’t do this because they’d simultaneously anger both property owners and recipients of government spending which would need to be cut.
The fault is entirely with those who don’t want more housing built. The government can use this as a wedge issue and blame immigrants (the ones who work and pay taxes) rather than the wealthy retirees
Any money you save by using Airbnb is pushing the cost of your tourism onto locals. Pay for a hotel (or other licensed accommodation) or stay home.
Barcelona for example is flooded with tourists and "nomads" and save for basically banning short term rentals and eradicating cancerous Airbnb there is not that much that can be done...
#shutdownTravelling
- Which AirBNB hosts actually have a good "dedicated workspace". Criteria: at least a 30" deep desk, and a comfortable adjustable height office chair.
- Which AirBNB rental units actually have fast internet. Ideal in a perfect world: Let me ping their router, or somehow get the airbnb host to visit https://speedof.me or a similar site, then upload the results. (i.e. -- once per day or once per week, live wifi speed data from that Airbnb Host's rental unit is uploaded to a site where I can access the speed data publicly)
- (This one is more of a "local cafe" functionality) Which AirBNB rental units have a cafe with strong, reliable wifi within <toggable> distance. i.e. let me toggle a .5 km, 1km, 2.5km, etc radius. Show cafes within that radius as well as their wifi
Edit: Another alternative to the cafe would be which AirBnBs have a good co-working space in walking distance.
Yep, I give the user several different options to post speeds including speedof.me. Contrary to what many might think, different speed test websites function differently and will reveal different types of speeds such as a max (under high load) or best "stable" speed.
The cafe idea is another good one that could be built into this site. Though, as someone who needs the ability to take voice calls, I certainly don't want to try doing that in a public environment. Thanks for your comment!
Edit: Cool idea though, edit because I don’t want to come over negative!
So what data are you collecting outside of what AirBnB already provides?
I personally wouldn't want to use airbnb as accommodation anymore. I don't generally like hotels and like tye idea of airbnb, but in the end you overpay to have a bunch of extra rules and chores imposed on you, hotels have become cheaper (wild I know) and they make your bed. Hotels are often pretty awful with the internet though.
Side note: one thing I do like about airbnb is that it has really forced hotels to step their game up. When they were the only game in town they could just coast doing the bare minimum that the worst hotel in town was doing and call it industry standard. They're starting to realize they actually have to do what it says on the box, "hospitality", because they can't compete with a house on a lake otherwise.
EDIT: It's back. Upgraded FireBase account
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