Pedro Sanchez pressures ‘high-tension areas’ to limit tourist accommodation amid housing crisis, including Barcelona and Malaga

Residential communities in Spain are now allowed to bar individual property owners from using their apartment as a holiday let under new legislation that came into force this month.

  • atro_city@fedia.io
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    1 day ago

    They’re blaming predatory landlords who own apartment buildings, evict all the tenants, and convert the whole block into AirBnB properties. They’re mostly not mom-and-pop operations, they’re big holding companies with huge stacks of money behind them.

    Great. Fuck those people and companies.

    Maybe it was this poster that was chosen for effect. I also remember visiting Portugal and seeing “Fuck off tourists” (or something quite similar, can’t remember) spray painted in multiple places around Lisbon.

    Like any business, if tourism is not regulated properly, it’ll have toxic side-effects.

    100%. Unfettered access to resources is a recipe for disaster.

    Thank you for your comment.