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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.
What is the negative consequence of Airbnb on San Francisco?
选项
A、It shrinks the living space of middle-class families.
B、Users are taken advantage of by the service financially.
C、It makes the house market more competitive.
D、It indirectly leads to high house rental price.
答案
D
解析
第四段首句就提到,Airbnb对旧金山产生了意想不到的后果(unintended consequences),之后一步步论述这个后果是什么。大意为一些房东将空余的房产用来作短期或长期的出租,挤压了传统的、管理更规范的房产市场,从而造成了(房租)成本上涨(contributes to rising costs),D项“间接推高了房租”正确。A项“压缩了中产阶级的生活空间”是对原文的曲解,原文是说中产阶级主动将空余的房间或屋子(spare room、multiple properties)用来出租,对自己居住空间没影响,故A项错误。B项是对Some users have taken advantage of the service的曲解,原文是用户利用Airbnb来占便宜,而不是B项说是“被Airbnb占便宜”。C项中的more competitive“竞争更激烈”没有根据。
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