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For what it’s worth, it’s a little closer than your numbers imply. The city averages 2.51 people per household, so now they just need 75k more houses.

https://www.barcelona.cat/infobarcelona/en/tema/city-council...

>>lostlo+(OP)
It still doesn't exactly look great that they "just" need ~45 years of house production to have happened yesterday.

>>lcnPyl+z1
The Airbnb measure fixed a quarter of the problem. That is huge by most standards

>>lcnPyl+z1
Classic governments, failing to do the right thing for decades and then blaming something that makes up a tiny part of the problem to shift blame.

>>sangno+74
But it's a one time event. What comes next and what if there are negative externalities?

It feels like a land grab, the real failure here is a lack of construction, and that isn't the fault of people renting via Airbnb.

>>voisin+g7
A government making a regulation that helps the its constituents seems like what it should be doing.

>>lostlo+Ah
It should have helped its constituents by ensuring homebuilding meets population growth over periods of time, rather than allowing it to be constrained for decades and then point at AirBNB as the source.

>>voisin+kC
Sort of?

By this logic a government can never change its priorities.

It’s done something wrong in the past and is trying make up ground now.