They say that when one door closes, another opens.
A lot has been said and written in the past few months about how the pandemic is - or might be - used as an opportunity to implement changes in social, economical and environmental issues that were in need of them, but were waiting for the right "political" moment.
One of these is of course the damage done to the availability of affordable rentals for locals in popular cities all over the world, the main culprit being AirBnB. While I am a believer in the basic model of this type of accommodation, it's obvious that this company has gotten too big and too hungry.
This article from New York Magazine relates how major European cities are trying to use the void created in the tourist scene by the pandemic, in order to better regulate short-term rentals in their bounds.
Hopefully we'll see governments taking the opportunity to make changes in other fields as well.
A lot has been said and written in the past few months about how the pandemic is - or might be - used as an opportunity to implement changes in social, economical and environmental issues that were in need of them, but were waiting for the right "political" moment.
One of these is of course the damage done to the availability of affordable rentals for locals in popular cities all over the world, the main culprit being AirBnB. While I am a believer in the basic model of this type of accommodation, it's obvious that this company has gotten too big and too hungry.
This article from New York Magazine relates how major European cities are trying to use the void created in the tourist scene by the pandemic, in order to better regulate short-term rentals in their bounds.
Hopefully we'll see governments taking the opportunity to make changes in other fields as well.
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