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Housing deprivation

Misappropriation of living space in metropolitan areas Part II - Airbnb, the smart housing broker

Airbnb founder Brian Chesky loves to tell the story over and over again. How he sat in his shared flat in San Francisco after graduating from college, all the hotel rooms in town were fully booked and then came up with a brilliant idea. What if he sublet his room? So the founding myth of Airbnb, the ...

The misappropriation of housing in metropolitan areas Part I

How the rental price brake is circumvented through Zeitwohnen In the late summer of 2016, about a year after the introduction of the rental price brake, an outcry went through the German press landscape. “Zeit”, “Süddeutsche”, “Handelsblatt” and others had surprisingly discovered that the makers of the rent brake had been tricked. The combination of furnished rental and temporary living had unexpectedly opened up a business model for some landlords ...