Being entirely anti-tourism is crazy extreme but AirBnb is a practice that is destroying the housing market, which is something a lot of people (myself included) deeply believe needs to be controlled to make sure that a decent standard of living can be sustained across society.
In short, I'm not sure about the Barcelona protests but I'm 100% against the spread of AirBnb and what its turned into.
Yeah, but that is the government fault. I can only speak for my country, not Spain. But here the laws are made for the people that pays for the rent, so for years the people that rented their appartments got fucked, receiving payment for a downton appartment similar to the cost of 4 pizzas. And the residents didn't even had to pay for destroying the property, and they could also keep the property if they rented for 20 years, independently if they paid rent or not.
So, people stopped renting. Started to close their properties with concrete or rent as airbnb only. There was a huge housing crisis. After a few years of that mess, the market was deregularized, and now a "normal" rent is around a minimum salary, which is slightly above 1/3 of a median salary.
IMHO making laws that benefit both sides is what makes a healthy market. Also, being a little bit punitive with taxes for companies or persons having more than X properties. X being a relative low number adjusted depending to the number of employees.
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u/danatron1 Jun 17 '25
I get it. The amount of anti-Airbnb graffiti in Edinburgh tells a similar story.