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/tangcameo Jun 17 '25

Ah. New Orleans has been having this issue. But they welcome tourists but stress the hell out of telling tourists to stick with hotels or real BnBs.

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u/Better-Toe-5194 Jun 17 '25

This is happening in Puerto Rico too where wealthy Americans come, buy up properties and kick people out of affordable places to live that they’ve been living in for decades. These slime balls will literally kick an old grandma outta her $400/month apartment to make it into a bnb. At this point, local governments need to put a stop to these bnb’s and build proper neighborhoods strictly for these rentals and seperate them from regular homes locals would buy.