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[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Get rid of air bnb and similar. It's caused a ton of problems in Japan as well with people buying whole buildings and pricing out existing tenants. There are legal protections, but most tenants, particularly elderly, don't know about them and either pay new increased prices by the new landlord or move out. The government enacted laws requiring a minpaku (think lodging/hotel) license and putting maxes on time, but tons of people still run illegal ones.

A lot of those people seem to be Chinese investors running them off of other sites which has furthered anger and xenophobia against all foreigners. One of the parties that skyrocketed in the most recent election wants to strip property rights from all foreigners and not just investment properties but ALL properties. It's a reaction to getting priced out and the government not doing shit about it. Granted, there are tons of other problems (prices rising weekly or monthly, wages not keeping up at all with inflation and rising prices, and overtourism more generally), but this is low-hanging fruit.

As someone who just bought a house last year (on the market for over a year in the countryside with farmland for which I had to interview and get permits to buy and use), and volunteers in his community, this is terrifying to me. I had to go through tons of extra hoops just for being a foreigner to begin with and now, thanks to fuckhead illegal hotel owners and bad policy, now lots of people want to take the one little bit of stability I finally felt.

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[–] TeamTeddy@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I've never understood the appeal of AirBNBs, letting complete strangers stay at my house sounds like it'd be an absolute NIGHTMARE.

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[–] absquatulate@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

This feels like misplaced anger, given that blackstone owns god knows how much of the real estate market ( and have recently been evicting tenants in order to sell, due to the city becoming 'less hospitable' ). But hopefully the new anti airbnb measures have some effect.

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[–] Sagan@piefed.social 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Not sure if anyone who lives here hasn't seen it yet, but !barcelona@piefed.social is a thing.

Copy pasted from another comment, the mayor who announced the decision made it so that it would applied after the end of his tenure (that will end in 2027, the decision is supposed to happen in 2028)

The other issue is that even besides tourism, Barcelona is a very attractive city for Spanish people due to the work opportunities, and there is definitely a lack of supply for the housing market. Getting back the Airbnb would help with the mass tourism (which is an issue of its own), but the housing crisis might still be there for a while.

[–] beeng@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Your neighbor was your friend... Until they sold out. ..

[–] PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 6 points 1 week ago (27 children)

why would anarchism be a solution to this, surely it would make it worse?

[–] theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 week ago (10 children)

Do you even know what anarchism is like at all?

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[–] TeddE@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

They could live in a home, for staters. Squatting is the crime of living in somebody else's legal property, but under anarchy, an unused home is being put to use, arguably to do what is was designed for. We don't necessarily need total anarchy to push the idea that "sometimes the rules are worse than no rules at all".

[–] BassTurd@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Make a place undesirable to rent an Abnb in and people may stop renting.

[–] Tiger666@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Tell me you know nothing of anarchy without saying you know nothing.

[–] 5too@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I believe they specifically asked about anarchy? If they know little about it, what could they have posted that would have been better than what they did post?

They're open to a lucky 10,000 moment; don't drop the ball!

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