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Barcelona will eliminate tourist apartments

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Re: Barcelona will eliminate tourist apartments

#31

Good. 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.

It's interesting hotels that feel like an AirBnB don't really exist. Even though the professional AirBnB hosts are doing all the functions that hotels do. Why not the reverse.

Re: Barcelona will eliminate tourist apartments

#32
post #10

Good. 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 :)

Who do you think is going to do the work every facet of your life requires?

Re: Barcelona will eliminate tourist apartments

#33

Good. 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.

Hotels suck. I want a hotel with no staff. Thats airbnb

Well, hotels barely have any staff these days, thanks to cost cutting ;)

Re: Barcelona will eliminate tourist apartments

#34
post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Alternatively, the population practicing birth control could solve the crisis. Don't have kids if you don't own at least one home :)

"Poor people shouldn't be allowed to reproduce, that will fix our problems"

You're allowed to ruin your children's lives, no doubt about that.

Re: Barcelona will eliminate tourist apartments

#36

Honest 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.

> I’d assume that the solution is to build more housing to increase the supply

Demand for tourist housing is probably a bit more elastic than for residential housing, so it'll probably help a bit, but in general, I agree that growing the pie is better than bitter fights over how to cut the pie up.

Re: Barcelona will eliminate tourist apartments

#37
post #10

Good. 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 :)

> Don't have kids if you don't own at least one home

That isn't how human beings work, though, and it never has been. I tend to suspect that a person saying something like this has few if any deep relationships with people who cannot afford to own homes, because the statement shows no compassion for their experience.

Re: Barcelona will eliminate tourist apartments

#38

Good. 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.

It's interesting hotels that feel like an AirBnB don't really exist. Even though the professional AirBnB hosts are doing all the functions that hotels do. Why not the reverse.

Aparthotels are fairly common. Then you gave the budget hotels with skeleton staff and almost no common areas and facilities

What do you mean exactly by "feels like an Airbnb"?

Re: Barcelona will eliminate tourist apartments

#39

Honest 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.

Less housing for tourists, prices of remaining hotels goes up, less people visit, tourism economy takes a hit, existing residents not tied to tourism benefit.

Re: Barcelona will eliminate tourist apartments

#40

Good. 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.

Hotels suck. I want a hotel with no staff. Thats airbnb

If people would just rent out their flats when they are not living there that would be fine. But people and corporations buy up housing and put them on Airbnb for above market prices. Suddenly you have no more place to live for the locals who have to work in the city. And a very high priced hotel room for the tourists.
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