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Last year, 138,000 San Francisco residents used Airbnb, a popular app designed to connect home renters and travelers. It’s a sta
Last year, 138,000 San Francisco residents used Airbnb, a popular app designed to connect home renters and travelers. It’s a sta
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2022-07-06
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Last year, 138,000 San Francisco residents used Airbnb, a popular app designed to connect home renters and travelers. It’s a staggering number for a city with a population of about 850,000, and it was enough for Airbnb to win a major victory in local elections, as San Francisco voters struck down a controversial rule that would have placed time restrictions and other regulations on short-term rental services.
The company fiercely opposed the measure, Proposition F, with a nearly $10 million lobbying and advertising campaign. It also contacted its San Franciscan users with messages urging them to vote against Proposition F.
Most people think of Airbnb as a kind of couch-surfing app. The service works for one-night stays on road trips and longer stays in cities, and it often has more competitive pricing than hotels. It’s a textbook example of the "sharing economy," but not everyone is a fan.
The app has had unintended consequences in San Francisco. As the San Francisco Chronicle reported last year, a significant amount of renting on Airbnb is not in line with the company’s image: middle-class families putting up a spare room to help make ends meet. Some users have taken advantage of the service, using it to turn their multiple properties into vacation rentals or even full-time rentals. Backers of Proposition F argued that this trend takes spaces off the conventional, better-regulated housing market and contributes to rising costs.
"The fact is, widespread abuse of short-term rentals is taking much needed housing off the market and harming our neighborhoods," said ShareBetter SF, a group that supported Proposition F. Hotel unions have protested the company’s practices in San Francisco and other cities, alleging that it creates an illegal hotel system.
San Francisco is in the middle of a long-term, deeply rooted housing crisis that has seen the cost of living explode. Actually, explode is a generous term. The median monthly rent for an apartment is around $4,000. Located on a narrow outcropping of land overlooking the bay, San Francisco simply doesn’t have enough space to accommodate the massive inflow of young, high-salaried tech employees flocking to Silicon Valley.
As the Los Angeles Times reported, some San Francisco residents supported the measure simply because it seemed like a way to check a big corporation. Opponents of Proposition F countered that the housing crisis runs much deeper, and that passing the rule would have hampered a popular service while doing little to solve the city’s existential problems.
The author’s attitude toward Proposition F is
选项
A、impartial.
B、subjective.
C、biased.
D、puzzling.
答案
A
解析
纵观全文。作者只是客观地叙述了旧金山居民投票否决了F提案,分别叙述了该提案形成的原因以及各方对该提案的意见。看不出作者对F提案的态度是支持还是反对,文中介绍了反对意见和支持意见,可见其态度应该是不偏不倚的,故选A项impartial“公正的”。
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