Barcelona announced it will bar apartment rentals to tourists by 2028 in an effort to rein-in soaring housing costs for residents.
The city's leftist mayor, Jaume Collboni, said that by November 2028, Barcelona will scrap the licences of the 10,101 apartments currently approved as short-term rentals. Local governments have announced restrictions on short-term rentals in places such as Lisbon, Berlin and Spain's Canary Islands in the past decade."It's about making all the necessary efforts to guarantee access to affordable housing," she posted on X.
Hotels stand to benefit from the move. The opening of new hotels in the city's most popular areas was banned by a far-left party governing Barcelona between 2015 and 2023, but Mr Collboni has signalled he could relax the restriction."Those 10,000 apartments will be used by the city's residents or will go on the market for rent or sale," Mr Collboni said of the measure.
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