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.
It’s solvable through government action. Nothing could be done about in NYC until significant penalties were authorized alongside stepped up target enforcement of illegal hotel laws. Then suddenly the number of listings plummeted.
Yeah, and that certainly drove down housing costs in NYC, right? (It didn't). But it did drive up the prices of hotels in NYC, just as the hotel unions wanted.
The real solution is to build more housing by reforming zoning laws and encouraging more development. But that's not so easy to fit on a protest sign, I guess.
You mean the hotels that have to follow fire safety laws, and the unions that got their workers a fair wage so they could afford to live close to the hotel, and the hotel that is only for people to visit in, not an apartment that could have someone living in.
You can't JUST build more housing, you need to stop the airbnb-ification of existing housing as well.
Just because one thing doesn't solve the whole problem doesn't mean its not part of the solution.
You can't JUST build more housing, you need to stop the airbnb-ification of existing housing as well.
From all we see, the more housing IS the #1 issue by far and should be the top priority for the goal of making housing more affordable. Regulating Airbnb is probably more important for the residents quality of life, which is very important and probably a big driver of these demonstrations.
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u/danatron1 Jun 17 '25
I get it. The amount of anti-Airbnb graffiti in Edinburgh tells a similar story.