Housing
Booking platforms such as Airbnb and Vrbo are increasingly faulted for limiting housing options for local residents and driving up rents.
Cities around the world are imposing stricter rules for short-term rentals offered as vacation properties by the likes of Airbnb and Vrbo. Short-term bookings, often defined as stays shorter than a month, reduce the supply of long-term rentals in local markets and are frequently blamed for exacerbating housing shortages, inflating rents and threatening hospitality jobs.
Barcelona pledged an outright ban on short-term rentals in June, in one of the most aggressive policies so far. It had already forbidden the rental of private rooms within homes.
