I'm just seeing if anyone has context for why tourism is causing problems in Spain? It seems the protesters are targeting white people.
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While the hypocrisy and all that political jazz is relevant, there is a growing problem with AirBnBs and their effects across the entire Western world.
Like, its rapidly growing out of control and is massively furthering the "you will never own a house because corporations/elites bought them all." Except now its not to rent them to you for rent level prices, but for "vacation rental" level prices.
But its racist for one side to point it out and the other is too busy virtue signalling about immigrants to score upvotes to acknowledge it.
The program my mortgage people use literally has an entire section devoted to "here is the average AirBnB for a house that size in the area and how long doing so will it take to pay your loan off." Would cut over 20 years off my mortgage.
Problem is, a lot of the reason why landlords need more money and less red tape is because the government is constantly jacking up the cost of everything (sewer, water, property taxes) and then increasing the legal protections squatters have.
So its a problem that the government is exacerbating into a catastrophe that even decent moral people trying their best cannot deal with without succumbing to the cancer.