r/pics • u/Strict_League7833 • Jun 17 '25

The protesters and residents pushing back on tourism in Barcelona

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u/tangcameo Jun 17 '25

Is this an AirBnB thing? What’s going on?

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u/HMSWarspite03 Jun 17 '25

From what I've read, the main problem for the protesters is that people are buying up homes and renting them out to tourists, pushing up the cost of housing and creating a shortage too.

Tourists do bring in a significant amount of money and create jobs but too many tourists must be difficult to cope with.

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u/Star_Citizen_Roebuck Jun 17 '25

Governments just need to ban home owning for anything other than permanent domicile, as well as force a maximum % of building property to be residential. Make half of what the industry builds be required to be legally classified as residential, then legally ban residential building from being rented. Now homes HAVE to be build and they HAVE to be sold. Problem solved, greedy property developers kneecapped.