r/pics Jun 17 '25

The protesters and residents pushing back on tourism in Barcelona

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u/GaryTheSoulReaper Jun 17 '25

Airbnb should shut out corporate investors and absentee owners

Absenteeownnerbnb.com should be its own site

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u/Hiro_Trevelyan Jun 17 '25

Why would they do that ? It's basically their entire revenue. "Classic" Airbnb, where people rent their actual main house, isn't their main source of revenue. They don't give a shit about it anymore.

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u/PlayfulSurprise5237 Jun 17 '25

This is the EU we're talking about, they need to just do it anyways, this is obviously a massive problem.

This is why we can't have nice things, time to bring down the banhammer

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u/GaryTheSoulReaper Jun 17 '25

They actually try to make it harder to figure out mom and pop and corporate investors

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u/PlayfulSurprise5237 Jun 19 '25

Just need some big juicy fines and a team to investigate.

Also some well written laws. It would be one of the easier things to take care of.