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    Notizie RTé: Lockbox da rimuovere a Dublino per rischio di sicurezza

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    1. legallygorilla on

      They’re clearly not a safety hazard. It’s a method of indirectly regulating short term rental accommodation.

    2. DUBMAV86 on

      When I heard Hazel chu talk about this a few weeks ago it was evident this was an attack on short term rentals rather than a safety risk

    3. boiler_1985 on

      But not the rubbish bags and horse shit and general filth all over the streets… no that’s just fine

    4. peterien87 on

      The landlords in the Dail were missing out on short term rentals so this is what they come up with.

    6. remington_noiseless on

      I’m amazed no one is picking these things open an getting the keys. It’s not too hard to find out how to decode these things (look up “lock picking lawyer” on youtube).

    7. Justa_Schmuck on

      It may be the only criteria they can use to get removal done quickly as it appears to be attached to infrastructure?

    8. Winter_Classroom3944 on

      A few of us are in an anti air bnb telegram group. We have had a couple of weekends of direct action removing and binning these. A lot of holidays ruined and some scum owners weekend ruined. 

    9. GarthODarth on

      > “I have a house here and if I put a lockbox on the front of it everyone is going to know there’s a key to my house in, but if I can put it just down the road somewhere nobody is going to know that,” he said.

      Devastated for you mate. This must be absolutely torturous having to actually show up to make money.

    10. Hakunin_Fallout on

      Loving Ireland reinventing the wheel again. Writing this from an AirBnB in Southern France where I was let inside by the host going away on a holiday. It’s their own apartment they live in. I’m returning the key via the lockbox

      Fantastic to see this level of innovation from Ireland and /r/Ireland. Keep on with the class struggle, comrades!

      Lol

    11. KatarnsBeard on

      Maybe I walk around like an absolute space cadet (quite possible) but I’ve never seen these anywhere besides the odd one attached to the wall of an elderly person’s house

    12. noisylettuce on

      They’d ban Airbnb if they weren’t onboard with surrendering all services to private companies so the country can be bought out.

    14. Goahead-makemytea on

      If it’s property being used regularly for Airbnb it might make more sense for them to fit a key code entry lock and just change the code instead of those lockboxes.

    15. sethasaurus666 on

      It’s a weak excuse for control measures, but then it makes you wonder how many TDs have Airbnbs.
      Airbnb is a great scheme. I’ve stayed in a few, and IMO it beats a hotel stay. 
      The real problem, as always, is lack of housing  and more importantly, lack of houses that people can afford to buy and  live in.

    16. LightLeftLeaning on

      I agree with the removal of these boxes. Owners should be present to hand over the premises to their guests. I have heard of a few disasters where guests have arrived to really unclean, unheated and otherwise substandard Air BnB holiday lets. The owners are often unreachable or in another country with no will or recourse to get the problems solved for their guests. This happened to me in France a couple of years ago.

    17. tsubatai on

      Perhaps using the bottom end of the hotel market and enriching government hotelier buddies every time the government needed accommodation for homeless, refugees, IPAs, halfway houses, flood displacement etc for the last 30 years was a bad idea.

      If you’re a hotelier with a property that needs a renovation you’re way better off going to the government and looking for some crowd that you can get a guaranteed income from who can’t rate you on trip advisor. You also don’t need most of your staff anymore.

      Add this to the comical limitations put on supply in housing and the market is fucked. You can ban air bnb if you want, it wont solve the issue, either something else will spring up, there’ll be another work around or you’ll just see a massive drop off in tourism that will put a lot of people out of work, and they’ll be having to leave the country or move home with mammy and daddy anyways.

      No, I don’t rent out any property, long or short term, and no, I don’t work in anything tourism related.

    18. bulbispire on

      Don’t see why AIRBNB can’t just be blanket banned in Dublin, like it is elsewhere

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