2024-06-21 12:47:11
Barcelona metropolis council has pledged to ‘get rid of’ greater than 10,000 vacationer properties within the Catalan capital.
Jaume Collboni, the town’s Socialist chief, made the announcement throughout a press convention on Friday afternoon.
The plan is to rid the town of all vacationer properties by November 2028 by not renewing any of the ten,101 licenses within the metropolis.
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They may as a substitute be used for residential properties, utilizing the official legislation accredited by the Generalitat which regulates the vacationer lodging.
“We have now determined to go all out to show them into residential buildings,” Colboni stated.
Collboni argues that the measure is a response to the rising downside of entry to reasonably priced housing in Barcelona, the place provide is scarce and rental costs exceed €1,100 per thirty days on common.
In keeping with figures cited throughout the press convention, home costs have elevated by 68 p.c in Barcelona within the final 10 years, whereas gross sales by simply 38 p.c. “The least that may be finished is to consider learn how to present private and non-private establishments. This implies ‘extra provision, extra provision, extra provision’,” Colboni stated.
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“The town has 10,000 vacationer flats and we need to convert them into residences,” he added. “By November 2028, we would like these 10,000 vacationer facilities to grow to be residences. From 2029, the vacationer flat as we all know it at the moment will disappear in Barcelona.”
Concern amongst locals in regards to the proliferation of short-term vacationer rental homes has grown within the Catalan metropolis lately. However not solely in Barcelona. The sentiment has unfold throughout the nation lately, particularly throughout the pandemic.
Protests have already taken place within the Canary and Balearic Islands like Madrid and Barcelona, and demonstrations are deliberate in Malaga on the finish of Could.
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The mix of a dwindling rental market provide and rising prices, exacerbated by the rise within the pandemic distant work, has meant that in lots of Spanish cities digital vacationers and vacationers are dominate metropolis establishments and cost municipalities in their very own areas.
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