KMack
12-27-2016, 07:52 PM
Do you have anti Airbnb laws where you live?
In a gentrifying neighborhood of San Francisco, a couple exit their cab and head toward an apartment, rolling suitcases behind them. Unbeknownst to them, a private investigator by the name of Michael Joffe sits in his parked car just across the street, discreetly snapping pictures.
This is not a divorce case waiting to happen or an international spy caper. Nothing that salacious or mysterious. It is instead an episode that provides a window into how bitter the feud between struggling tenants and home-sharing websites like Airbnb Inc. has become. Joffe works for a tenant lawyer who in turns represents a family that was evicted from their apartment -- the one that the couple was entering that day.
The goal of the stakeout was to uncover, and document, smoking-gun proof that the landlord is violating city ordinances limiting the use of private homes for short-term rentals. It’s very lucrative work nowadays in San Francisco, the city that’s come to represent America’s shortage of affordable housing........................................... ..........
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-27/prying-eyes-are-watching-airbnb-customers-as-tenants-fight-back
If Nor Cal government was not so anti development the area would see loads of new construction. Anyway beautiful city,
me in San Francisco well before mobile phone cameras.
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/NDDGEGab6u_mMKXRW6ZoA-_sDGUw0B_uyU37MzPRanSlagV2TIq2jVfOSI2WYwJAdhmvrRLA zA=w1312-h738-no
In a gentrifying neighborhood of San Francisco, a couple exit their cab and head toward an apartment, rolling suitcases behind them. Unbeknownst to them, a private investigator by the name of Michael Joffe sits in his parked car just across the street, discreetly snapping pictures.
This is not a divorce case waiting to happen or an international spy caper. Nothing that salacious or mysterious. It is instead an episode that provides a window into how bitter the feud between struggling tenants and home-sharing websites like Airbnb Inc. has become. Joffe works for a tenant lawyer who in turns represents a family that was evicted from their apartment -- the one that the couple was entering that day.
The goal of the stakeout was to uncover, and document, smoking-gun proof that the landlord is violating city ordinances limiting the use of private homes for short-term rentals. It’s very lucrative work nowadays in San Francisco, the city that’s come to represent America’s shortage of affordable housing........................................... ..........
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-27/prying-eyes-are-watching-airbnb-customers-as-tenants-fight-back
If Nor Cal government was not so anti development the area would see loads of new construction. Anyway beautiful city,
me in San Francisco well before mobile phone cameras.
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/NDDGEGab6u_mMKXRW6ZoA-_sDGUw0B_uyU37MzPRanSlagV2TIq2jVfOSI2WYwJAdhmvrRLA zA=w1312-h738-no