Simple solution: tax the shit out of short term rental income.
Nah, ban it outright!
In a perfect world, yes, but at least where I live it’s easier to get rid of something by making it expensive and drowning it in red tape and tax code. People love their freedumb.
I get the frustration, but I don’t think its fair to direct it at tourists. I don’t believe for a second that the protestors aren’t at times tourists themselves, and it’s hard to see what directing abuse at random tourists visiting for a week, with no emotional investment or control of Spain’s rental system, could possibly achieve.
Airbnb has been allowed to run unregulated in pretty much every market. Naturally this hurts areas where tourism is a major industry more than others–so again, I get the frustration. But geez, channel that back to people who can actually fix it rather than yelling at foreigners.
EDIT: Sorry I should add, I’m referring to not just this piece of graffiti, but also the similar posts that seem to appear on lemmy every few days.
Blame government for not addressing this.
The owner class owns government, are the ones who actually make changesm
In a very nuanced approach, I state: “Airbnb is the cancer of tourism, an already problematic industry”
Why is it written in English if it’s in Barcelona?
Probably because English is the international standard and tourists speak it
For English speakers?
It’s a trade language, if you’re talking to tourists it makes sense to use a trade language.
It’s speaking to tourists, who generally can’t read Catalan
For the audience, dear.
Because they want tourists to understand.
Also, this has happened everywhere, not just Barcelona.
Lol please don’t criticize the landlords, this is purely the fault of the tourists
Unpopular opinion:
It’s the government fault for not writing laws that protect housing for its citizens.
It doesn’t matter how much you think it’s imoral (it is) but the simple fact is anyone will always follow his nature given the chance. Landlords will landlord and tourists will tourist. Laying the fault on them and doing nothing makes you complicit. They won’t stop ever, because it’s not their nature. It’s the government that has to force them.
Ooof, people here really did not see the sarcasm.
If the former residents had been smarter, they’d have worked at a job that made more money and simply purchased a home outright using their diverse investment portfolio as collateral. Hmph!
It’s like they didn’t even consider asking daddy to simply purchase the home for them?!
Bullshit, the landlords could choose to rent them out for apartments, but that would be less money for them. It’s the landlords fault much more than the tourists, because they’re the ones putting them on Airbnb.
whoosh!
Yeah no shit
Send the tourists home. Send the landlords to the meat grinder.
This is the way
Spain has built a pretty big tourism industry. Stopping people from coming in would result in a lot of unemployment.
unemployment
But if the work wasnt necessary, this is a resource allocation and cruelty issue.
Who gets to decide what’s ‘necessary?’
There are a lot of answers to that, snd i cannot think of a worse one than what we have right now.
But my favorite: the people doing and supporting it.
If you can’t think of a worse system, you should probably read more history books.
So you just like this one and wanted to pretend there are no alternatives. Got it. Very intellectually honest. Carry on; i won’t interrupt.
Carry on; i won’t interrupt.
Of course you won’t. We’re on the internet, and I can post anything I want.
That’s another thing you should read up on.
