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Barcelona will eliminate ALL tourist apartments in 2028 following local backlash: 10,000-plus licences will expire in huge blow for platforms like Airbnb - Olive Press News Spain

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Barcelona will eliminate ALL tourist apartments in 2028 following local backlash: 10,000-plus licences will expire in huge blow for platforms like Airbnb

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- And normal housing is not a hotel. If you have people that rent a room or something and you are there you keep an eye out and make sure they behave. Can you imagine your neighboring house or appartment becoming a party flat with people that don't care how loud they are.
  
  If the aim is to curb overtourism and to fix the housing crisis then no, it's still not fine.
  
  Ok I agree in theory.tyat said I rented a room when younger. In a house that has 2 other older men in the house.
  Yeah roommates suck. But I couldn't afford the rent I pay now if they were not there. I was on a month to moth basis for contract and it was a room in a house instead of an apartment means something.
  Renting a room isn't that bad, renting nightly is....
This is awesome, I hope more places do this, or at least put much greater restrictions on it.
- Greatly reducing tourism would also go a long way in meeting climate goals, too.
It is high time governments to start taxing people progressively based on how many properties they own. I have a friend who bought 5-6 properties. That's absolutely disgusting.
- Yup, in countries with severe housing shortages preventing post secondary students from being able to move forward with their education as they got evicted before they could graduate is unbelievably cruel.
Good. I own and use an apartment where the majority of the building is short term holiday rentals, and these people flout security, noise ordinance, facilities and are a general nuisance through and through.
The Youtube comments sections of documentaries of rent poverty in Spain usually get filled with landlords complaining about how the government is taxing them to death, and how relieving them of such taxes would be the solution. Somehow they consistently get plenty of upvotes.
Bitch, if you were being taxed to death you would rush to try and sell those homes, and THAT'S what I want to see happen.
- Selling property? Don't be ridiculous!
  That might force them to change their way of life, and start contributing to society for a living.
Although I would like to visit Barcelona someday, I support this wholeheartedly.
Basedelona
Another means I've heard of is limiting apartment/home rentals to a 1 month minimum
Maintains a minimal open door for people who actually wanna get emersed while also redirecting all but the most lucrative properties back into local residential living.
- Nah just blanket ban that shit. Residential housing as investment objects need to die asap. If the locals want to become part of the hospitality industry they can open a hotel.
- It's much harder to enforce that than just saying NO though
Too bad here in America, Land of the Free to pay up or go fuck yourself, this never happen outside of the occasional local town ordinance. The government gets paid taxes either way so they don't care.
Unrelated, why does that city look like it was built in SimCity using mods?
- The district you're referring to is called Eixample (literally "extension"), which is a planned district that was built as a large scale construction project in the 19th and 20th century to expand the city and make room for more/more modern apartments.
  Link: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eixample
  
  Which is kind of ironic seen the current problems.
  But it's indeed incredibly beautiful.
  Lisboa has a similar but smaller and older district, built there to rebuild after an earthquake.
Fast forward to 2028: "why tourists do not come here anymore ? We are loosing money here."
- Tourism is far from being the main branch in Barcelona's economy:
  https://bcnroc.ajuntament.barcelona.cat/jspui/bitstream/11703/133099/3/Barcelona%20en%20xifres-CA-web%20ok.pdf
- Barcelona still has plenty of regular commercial Hotels that are purpose built to house many tourists.
  
  True but they basically cut how many people could stay in Barcellona, not how many people could go to Barcellona.
  So what will happen, in my opinion, is that people will continue to go to Barcellona, staying in the surroundings to sleep.
  So both of the problems they want to solve will be not solved: they will continue to have over-tourism and the houses will not go on the market so the prices will not lower.

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