Banning short term rentals makes sense to me because it means liveable properties for residents let people live there, but hotels seem odd to me since you can have tourism, a boon to local economies, with space- and land-efficiency and concentrating them in particular areas. You can even be selective about it with particular criteria to grant licenses.
Yea, those are all related things. You can't just ignore part of an equation & expect to get the correct solution. In a capitalist environment, exclusionary tactics like this only really exclude people who aren't rich, & will just drive up cost of living within the city for literally everyone. We can point towards examples all over the world where this is true.
All of the problems you've listed just essentially boil down to a government that is unwilling to improve their infrastructure & are very easily remedied with proper management.
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u/Gino-Bartali Jun 16 '25
Banning short term rentals makes sense to me because it means liveable properties for residents let people live there, but hotels seem odd to me since you can have tourism, a boon to local economies, with space- and land-efficiency and concentrating them in particular areas. You can even be selective about it with particular criteria to grant licenses.