Spain’s authorities has ordered Airbnb to dam near 66,000 vacation listings on its platform for having violated guidelines, the Consumer Rights Ministry stated on Monday.
The ministry stated that most of the 65,935 Airbnb listings it had ordered to be withdrawn didn’t embrace their license quantity or specify whether or not the proprietor was a person or an organization. Others listed numbers that did not match what authorities had.
Spain is grappling with a housing affordability disaster that has spurred authorities motion towards short-term rental firms.
In latest months, tens of 1000’s of Spaniards have taken to the streets protesting rising housing and rental prices, which many say have been pushed up by vacation leases on platforms like Airbnb which have proliferated in cities like Madrid and Barcelona and lots of different common vacationer locations.
“Enough already with protecting those who make a business out of the right to housing,” Consumer Minister Pablo Bustinduy advised reporters on Monday.
Last 12 months, Barcelona introduced a plan to shut down all the 10,000 residences licensed within the metropolis as short-term leases by 2028 to safeguard the housing provide for full-time residents.
The ministry stated it had notified Airbnb of the noncompliant listings months in the past, however that the corporate had appealed the transfer in courtroom.
Spain’s authorities stated Madrid’s excessive courtroom had backed the order despatched to Airbnb on Monday. Bustinduy stated it concerned the instant elimination of 5,800 rental listings from the positioning. Subsequent orders could be issued till the almost 66,000 removals had been reached, he stated.
Airbnb couldn’t be instantly reached for remark.
Spain’s authorities stated the primary spherical of leases affected had been situated throughout the nation, together with within the capital, Madrid, in addition to within the areas of Andalusia and Catalonia.
Source: www.dailysabah.com