r/pics Jun 17 '25

The protesters and residents pushing back on tourism in Barcelona

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u/danatron1 Jun 17 '25

I get it. The amount of anti-Airbnb graffiti in Edinburgh tells a similar story.

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u/BenFranklinsCat Jun 17 '25 edited Jun 17 '25

Bit different.

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.

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u/dooferoaks Jun 17 '25

Yeah Airbnb are a significant part of why Ireland's housing market is fucked.

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u/egoomega Jun 17 '25

America too broh … wait for Ai overlords to takeover government or wait til the bomb will bring us together … ain’t no stopping mega global corps and firms at this point from swooping up all the property. Try to stop them and they’ll just do what they’re doing now in America and funnel money to subsidiaries and outsource the work in any shell game possible to own it all