Barcelona cracks down on Airbnb rentals with illegal apartment squads

Post by dang » Tue, Jun 06, 2017, 4:13 AM UTC

bcncit wrote: post #60

faragon wrote: post #47

No, because of tourist rentals are not enough for covering the local demand, the problem is 10x bigger. Regarding people needs, in my opinion the problem is that people in charge in local government (Barcelona city) is not focused in solving the problems, but in agitprop for increasing their own power (currently the extreme-left is governing Barcelona in minority). Also, regional government (Catalonia) is focused in…

Thank you for clarifying. As a Barcelona citizen, I was with the impression that Spain's central government furious attack against Catalonia people's right to self-determination was to simply to distract the fact that the central government party (Partido Popular) has over 900 politicians currently on trial with charges of corruption (more than any other party in the whole Europe). In fact, I thought central governme…

The sort of internecine political battle that you and faragon took this thread into definitely does not belong on HN. Please don't do this again. The last thing we need here is flaming nationalist passions.

Post by faragon » Tue, Jun 06, 2017, 8:27 AM UTC

bcncit wrote: post #76

faragon wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The US made a war against the "White Separatism" (Confederate States of America), in order to protect the US Constitution and citizen rights. Even in more recent times, e.g. in 1955 the US Constitution protected Rosa Parks against those same xenophobic supremacists that lost the American Civil War, and were using their regional power in order to impose ethnic totalitarianism. So think your argument twice, and think i…

I love immigration. I loved it when it was people from Spain 30 or 40 years ago and I love it now from other countries, such as Morocco, China, Pakistan or Europe, both legal and illegal. I helped illegal immigrants with their paperwork to become legal immigrants. I do believe that the avalanche of ex-pats that decided to settle in Barcelona in the last 50-years has allowed Catalans to enjoy a more cosmopolitan envir…

You "love" immigration, but you endorse the monolingual Catalan school, despite being the language of a minority of the citizens in the region. Great "democracy" example (democracy is not just "voting" -many dictatorships allowed to "vote" to cut rights-, is the rule of law and respecting people's rights).

For your information, I do like immigration, and I'm in favor of trilingual school in the Catalan region of Spain (Spanish, Catalan, English), and the more immigration coming to Spain, the better for the country, that would mean that the economy is recovering and people is willing to bet for it. BTW, you can not judge an organization based on the opinions of one person (even if what you say about that person could be true, or not). Xenophobe examples by the Catalan nationalism are endless.

I know the Catalan nationalism arguments, and I can dismount them one by one. So you're wasting your time with your propaganda on me.

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