Barcelona announces plan to ban tourist rental apartments by 2028 following local backlash: 10,000-plus licences will expire!

https://www.forbes.com/sites/isabellekliger/2024/06/21/barcelona-announces-plan-to-ban-tourist-rental-apartments-by-2028/

by UnluckyGamer505

11 comments

  1. About fuckin time

    Airbnb is a cancer. Tourists go to hotels, the apartments and houses are for people to live in.

  2. Now strike down on renting as well to stop the rich pigs from hoarding real estate and then make poor people pay for their livelihood by rent, where little of value is produced.

    Just have new tax laws to increasingly fuck individuals or companies that hoard homes to encourage single home ownerships

  4. Good for Barcelona, I know the Catalan friends have suffered skyrocketed rents due to Airbnb and similar options so the city has gentrified a lot.

  6. 10,000 properties for people to actually live in.. sounds good to me. Should’ve been a complete ban within the EU in my opinion seeing as most if not all of the union states have a housing shortage.

  7. That’s great news. I started my undergrad in Barcelona around the same time Airbnb was really taking off (around 2012) and the rents skyrocketed over the following years. It won’t single-handedly fix the high rent problem, but it’s a step in the right direction. I hope other Catalan cities will follow suit. Even in my small town, it’s hard to find rentals because most empty apartments become Airbnbs.

  8. I’m gonna book a trip to Barcelona just because they did this. No law can stop me. I’m gonna walk around with a giant map and look confused and put money into their economy and theirs nothing you can do hahah

  9. Honestly really glad for this. Something like this could also be used in my city and maybe Barcelona can work as a guide for these kind of laws to spread

  10. 10 000 flats. In a city with 700 000 flats.

    Whoever thinks this will make a significant impact is delusional.

    Barcelona needs a regional program to connect and grow new areas in the metro area and do so fast. Everything else is posturing.

    We built entire cities for my grandpa’s and parents generation. Time to do it again for the younger generations.

  11. Maybe kick out all the squatters and free those apartments?

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