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Thesis (M.B.A.)--Boston University

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Since 2014, Airbnb has been the poster-child for an impassioned debate over how to best regulate short-term home rentals (STR’s) in New Orleans, Louisiana. As critical perspectives toward on-demand economic practice become increasingly common, it is important to understand how the impacts of STR platforms like Airbnb extend beyond the realm of what is traditionally conceptualized as the economic (i.e., pressure on housing markets). In this thesis, I explore the ways in which Airbnb recalibrates the spatial and temporal rhythms of everyday neighborhood life for people external to the formal trappings of an STR contract. Drawing in particular on theories of authenticity and feminist political economy, I argue that locals’ emotional labor of “playing host” is necessarily enrolled into the creation of value for Airbnb, and is essential to the reproduction of the platform’s business model and marketing rhetoric.

The objective of this paper is to analyze the resiliency of the New Orleans lodging and tourism industry by conducting a SWOT analysis. A SWOT analysis is composed of four key parts: the internal influences that are the strengths (S) and weaknesses (W) and the external influences that are the opportunities (O) and threats (T). New Orleans is characterized by the ability to use its internal strengths to drive growth in its lodging and tourism market. The main internal strengths I identified were the city’s strong cultural identity, and destination attractiveness in both the convention and leisure markets. However, New Orleans also has internal weaknesses that adversely affect the perception of the city: cultural arrogance, crime and cleanliness. Externally, the city is presented with several opportunities to become one of the top tourist destinations both nationally and internationally. The marketing opportunities available to New Orleans are through the New Orleans Tourism Marketing Corporation, the healthcare and film industries, and the city’s accessibility. The city’s reach is limited by several key threats, such as short-term rentals, competing markets such as Charleston and Atlanta, and natural disasters that could disrupt New Orleans’ position as one of the top visitor markets in the United States.

In order to better understand the effects of condominium conversions, this study explores the nature and extent of the conversion trend, and its social impacts on the Vieux Carré neighborhood. The increasing number of conversions in the Vieux Carré, also known as the French Quarter, has been the focus of recent controversy and has been perceived by many residents as a threat to the viability of the historic district as a neighborhood. Long-term Vieux Carré residents and neighborhood organizations have expressed fears that the converted rental units are being used as short-term rentals to tourists or second homes, which may be contributing to the decline of the neighborhood's residential base. As a framework for understanding the social impacts of condominium conversions in the Vieux Carré neighborhood, this study includes a review of the literature on neighborhood change, neighborhood health, and neighborhood attachment. Since the issue of condominiums is intertwined with the ongoing research on tourism in this historic district, a review of the literature on condominium conversion, tourism impacts and the Vieux Carré also is included. In addition, this study contains the results of a mail survey of occupants of converted condominium units in the Vieux Carré. While survey respondents report formal and informal participation in the neighborhood, only half of the occupants (53%) of the converted units consider the Vieux Carré as their primary residence or are registered to vote in New Orleans. Although many condominium residents do exhibit a sense of neighborhood attachment, half are not present in the neighborhood on a full-time basis; therefore, they have limited opportunities to participate politically on behalf of the neighborhood. The findings of the survey suggest the social impacts of the condominium conversion in the Vieux Carré are likely to contribute to the decline of the neighborhood.

This master´s thesis deals with the coefficents of difference for map of rent in Blansko. The main aim of this thesis is to describe the historical development of regulated rents from the interwar period to the present. It is the aim of this thesis to establish a system of coefficients that will lead to solving the problem of determining the market rent after deregulation. This problem was solved on the basis of statistical processing created database offers rentals in Blansko. The result is an equation transformed into a program in which the assessment of individual coefficients of difference is to calculate market rent.

Under the banner of the ‘sharing economy’, private short-term rental platforms such as Airbnb have witnessed tremendous success, facilitating millions of overnight stays in everyday homes. And while the issue has garnered considerable attention from both popular media and policy makers in cities such as New York, Amsterdam, London and Berlin, little attention has been paid to the topic in Stockholm, Sweden as well as academic literature. With this absence of discussion serving as a point of departure, I analyze both primary and secondary data pertaining to the rise of Airbnb in Stockholm. With a theoretical lens based in critical poststructuralist thought, I argue that Airbnb is embedded within neoliberal urbanism, fueling the social and economic forces behind gentrification. In order to address the problematic implications of Airbnb and similar platforms, I suggest policymakers and applicable actors to review the current taxing scheme, consider temporal restrictions, align short-term rental laws with subletting laws and communicate clearly.

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Problemformulering: Det blir viktigare och viktigare i dagens samhälle att tänka hållbart. Bolag behöver bidra till hållbar utveckling och redovisa sina hållbarhetsarbeten i sina rapporter för att vara med och konkurrera med andra bolag. I fastighetsbranschen kan man tänka hållbart när man bygger nytt men för att skapa ett hållbart samhälle måste man även tänka hållbart i förvaltningsskedet där man tar hand om det befintliga fastighetsbeståndet. Syfte: Syftet med denna studie är att erhålla en djupare förståelse för bostadsbolags hållbarhetsarbete genom att studera hur de tillämpar sin hållbarhetsstrategi i en renoveringskontext. Metod: Arbetet har genomförts genom en rapportstudie där information om bolagens hållbarhetsstrategi, mål och renoveringsåtgärder har samlats in från deras års- och hållbarhetsredovisningar. Vidare har en kvalitativ metod använts i form av intervjuer med respondenter från respektive bolag. Resultat & Slutsats: Rapporten kommer fram till att bolagen applicerar sin hållbarhetsstrategi på liknande men lite olika sätt. Vissa arbetar mer med social hållbarhet medan andra har mer fokus på energieektiviseringar och lönsamhet. Några av bolagen har ett tydligare bevarandetänk då de hellre renoverar än att installera nytt. Bolagen försöker att balansera alla hållbarhetsaspekter men ekonomin är det som styr vilka projekt som kan genomföras eftersom att investeringarna i slutändan måste vara lönsamma. Resultatet visar även att bolagen prioriterar sina renoveringar efter behov men att akuta åtgärder alltid går i första hand. Man kan man se att bolagens hållbarhetsstrategi genomsyrar deras hållbarhetsarbete i ett renoveringskontext. Det finns däremot många sätt de kan förbättra sitt hållbarhetsarbete och mer att lära kring hur man renoverar hållbart. / Problem formulation: It is becoming more and more important in today's society to think in a sustainable manner. Companies need contribute to sustainable development and report their sustainability work in their reports in order to compete with other companies. In the real estate industry, you can think sustainably when you build new properties, but to create a sustainable society, you also have to think sustainably in the management phase, where you take care of the existing property stock.  Purpose: The purpose of this study is to gain a deeper understanding of sustainability efforts of housing companies by studying how they apply their sustainability strategy in a renovation context.  Method: The work has been conducted through a report study where information about the companies' sustainability strategy, goals and renovation measures have been collected from their annual and sustainability reports. Furthermore, a qualitative method has been used in the form of interviews with respondents from each company. Results & Conclusion: The report concludes that the companies apply their sustainability strategy to similar but slightly different way. Some work more with social sustainability, while others focus more on energy effciency improvements and proftability. Some of the companies have a clearer conservation mindset as they prefer to renovate rather than install new. The companies try to balance all aspects of sustainability, but the economy is what governs which projects can be implemented because the investments must ultimately be proftable. The results also show that the companies prioritize their renovations as needed, but that urgent measures always come first. You can see that the companies' sustainability strategy permeates their sustainability work in a renovation context. However, there are many ways they can improve their sustainability work and more to learn about how to renovate sustainably.