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>>voisin+(OP)
Barcelona has a population of ~1.7 million. The metro area surrounding is ~5.7 million. The metro area grew by ~100k in the past four years.

They are freeing up ~10,000 houses over the next four years with this legislation. Barcelona built ~15,000 new properties between 2011 and 2020.

The math don't math. It's a drop in the bucket. The entire impact of AirBnB + all housing built in the last decade does not offset the last half decade of population growth.

Housing must be built more quickly than your population is growing to keep prices down, or you must concede that you live in a nice area where people wealthier than you wish to be and that those people are going to gentrify the area and displace locals. It's an unpleasant reality of the world.

EDIT: some good feedback in the responses. thanks! I'm being a bit dramatic by saying it's just a drop in the bucket, this action frees up more housing than was built over the same timespan, and it's possible to have effects on pricing greater than what would be inferred by the raw numbers because economics is tricky. cheers.

>>SeanAn+A3
The issue is that the "airbnb" areas drive normal citizens out which during off-seasons drains foot traffic making local shops go out of business which further complicates the problem.

Not to mention that most tourists don't even sit around the local area, but rather go to the city attractions.

Airbnb and resident housing areas are just not compatible, they have different needs and require different infrastructure. Hotels are built around infrastructure supporting tourism and are much healthier for cities.

>>kachap+C6
Businesses are unable to plan around seasonality? What's up with that? In the US, businesses in touristy areas often will shut down for the slow season.

>>dnissl+r9
It's difficult to make work economically, other than shuttering for part of the year.

Which is why tourist resort towns and stadium areas tend to have a lot of closed shops when they're not "on".

Which in turn makes them less attractive for year-round residents, which spirals into intensifying seasonality.

>>ethbr1+Q9
When I think of places dominated by tourism its not the tourism that did it. Its that the tourism is what is left after little other job growth in any other sector after whatever impetus that triggered building the town in the first places ceased to exist.

>>kjkjad+Hf
My personal example would be the old Turner Field in Atlanta.

Major sports team, but the area was a wasteland, because everything was developed around the 50,000 people flooding in for one afternoon. Parking lots, traffic flow, food stands.

The actual neighborhood was pretty dead.

Braves move up to a new stadium in Cobb county, some redevelopment, and now the old neighborhood is flourishing.

Saw the same as a (briefly) Florida resident.

I think it's difficult to establish "normal" development in an area subject to tourism tides, because many of the decisions are mutually exclusive.

Either {support tourism} or {support long term residential development}. And money intersects with politics, so eventually one set of interests win out.