January 16, 2017
OAKLAND — As city leaders here take their first steps toward regulating Airbnb, they have made one concern abundantly clear: they don’t want what San Francisco has. Not gentrification that forces long-term residents out of the city’s diverse neighborhoods, not a community divided by tension between techies and everyone else, and not an affordable housing crisis exacerbated by Airbnb and other short-term rentals. “It’s not about preventing techies, per se,” Oakland Councilwoman Rebecca Kaplan said. “It’s about protecting communities from displacement, from wrongful evictions, from foreclosures.”…
Source: http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/01/16/oakland-airbnb-issue-highlights-citys-gentrification-fears/
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