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points by Dylan16807 4 days ago | 0 comments
Barcelona's at something like 1.2% empty housing and a similar amount of Airbnb locations if these Google results can be trusted. Let's say we want 10% more housing. If shutting down Airbnb would put just 1/4 of those locations on the market, that would be 0.3% of the market or 3% of the goal. That's not a meaningless amount. It's not your flashlight's roughly 0.00000000000001% of 100PWh per full charge.
[–] cowlevel 4 days ago
Also, prices are set on the margins. Everyone who lives there has to pay a competitive rate to AirBNB because otherwise their landlord would just evict them and make it an AirBNB instead.

(Competitive doesn't mean the same price per night - there's also factors of cleaning and occupancy rate)

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