Barcelona will eliminate tourist apartments
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Barcelona will eliminate tourist apartments
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Re: Barcelona will eliminate tourist apartments
#2It's a short term authoritarian bandaid that doesn't even help that many people, all the while fostering resentment and opening up increasingly authoritarian measures in the future.
We should go the asian route of increasing density and size. It's not like Barcelona is fully developed border to border.
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#3Good. Tourists should sleep in hotels and locals should sleep in their flats.
Platforms like AirBnB only put oil in the fire when it comes to housing crises.
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#5Honest question: does this work?
It seems to me that this change will have unintended effects and will fail to produce the desired results.
AFAIK rent in NYC hasn’t gone down since they changed their short-term rental regulations.
I might be naive, but I’d assume that the solution is to build more housing to increase the supply instead of curbing the demand?
Genuinely curious about others’ takes on this.
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#6It's a short term authoritarian bandaid that doesn't even help that many people, all the while fostering resentment and opening up increasingly authoritarian measures in the future. We should go the asian route of increasing density and size. It's not like Barcelona is fully developed border to border.
Have you been to Barcelona? You can't put any more shit than there already is.
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#7Honest question: does this work? It seems to me that this change will have unintended effects and will fail to produce the desired results. AFAIK rent in NYC hasn’t gone down since they changed their short-term rental regulations. I might be naive, but I’d assume that the solution is to build more housing to increase the supply instead of curbing the demand? Genuinely curious about others’ takes on this.
The problem is that residents leave entire areas of the city since they become empty. Foot traffic drops, local shops close - a non ending cycle of death.
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#8It's a short term authoritarian bandaid that doesn't even help that many people, all the while fostering resentment and opening up increasingly authoritarian measures in the future. We should go the asian route of increasing density and size. It's not like Barcelona is fully developed border to border.
Barcelona has a 16,000 people per square km density - that’s already one of the highest in Europe.
https://worldpopulationreview.com/world-cities/barcelona-pop....
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#9Will this actually change anything? Curious if folks will just create a black market for these instead (this is basically how ny works)
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#10Good. Tourists should sleep in hotels and locals should sleep in their flats. Platforms like AirBnB only put oil in the fire when it comes to housing crises.
Alternatively, the population practicing birth control could solve the crisis. Don't have kids if you don't own at least one home :)