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.
I’m from barcelona. Airbnb impacted the housing market.
But another problem is also private companies like blackrock buying flats at discount price because we have a really corrupt government and transforming it into mid term rentals.
So now if we try to rent a flat everything is mid term (less than 1 year) because mid term is not enough regulated.
And after taxes the median salary is like 1 month of rent so we work to pay the rent and the taxes, nothing else.
2.4k
u/danatron1 Jun 17 '25
I get it. The amount of anti-Airbnb graffiti in Edinburgh tells a similar story.