Valencia Follows Barcelona in Crackdown on Short-Term Rentals

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1. *From Bloomberg News reporters Clara Hernanz Lizarraga and Macarena Munoz Montijano:*

   Spain’s Valencia region, one of Europe’s most popular beach destinations, is cracking down on short-term vacation rentals as officials nationwide grapple with growing anger over mass tourism.

   The regional government will fine homeowners as much as €600,000 for renting rooms for short-term vacations, Nuria Montes, Valencia’s head of tourism, said during a presentation of Thursday. The government will immediately alert platforms they need to take out these kind of rentals.

   The “unorderly growth” of short-term rentals “creates damaging effects which, in the case of tourist apartments, could create social problems, a drop in housing supplies and the consequent increase in prices,” Carlos Mazon, the Valencia president, said during the presentation.

   [The full report is free to read.](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-08-01/spain-valencia-follows-barcelona-in-fight-against-airbnb-style-lets)

2. Completely électoralist decision; to fullfill few people s will, you ll cut a huge chunk of summer economy just to please students and low economic power people, I really don’t understand the benefit of this except pleasing associations and low income people. It s shooting right in your foot to please a fly

   Also hotels will raise their prices and make everything worse. To me it s non sense but here we go

   https://hbr.org/2024/02/what-does-banning-short-term-rentals-really-accomplish

   Édit, click the link you guys it s amazing you re so oblivious to it because it deals with property owner and money

   Edit2 : homeless people or students or living in their parents house people trying to participate lol

3. Treating the symptom not the problem

   The state treating the symptom for a problem it caused.

   Expect house prices to keep going up

4. Republica Sovietica de España