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Overtourism: Barcelona attacks Airbnb rentals
Overtourism: Barcelona attacks Airbnb rentals
(FRANCEINFO)
“We will be able to put 10,000 homes back on the rental market,” declared the mayor of Barcelona, where the Airbnb platform will be blocked within five years.
Imagine a city without Airbnb and low-cost rentals. This city is Barcelona, Spain, where Airbnb will have to fold within five years. “We will be able to put 10,000 homes back on the rental market”, said the mayor of Barcelona, Jaume Collboni. A shock measure, because Barcelona experiences mass tourism.
Rents are soaring because of furnished tourist accommodation: +68% in 10 years. The idea of blocking Airbnb could be duplicated by other cities and in particular Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône). When requested, the town hall did not wish to communicate. In La Rochelle (Charente-Maritime), the city was counting on the Airbnb law, but with the dissolution of the Assembly, the text is blocked. France has around 1 million Airbnb-type rentals, compared to 300,000 eight years ago.
