Spain orders Airbnb to block 65,000 holiday rentals over rule violations

MADRID – Spain's authorities said connected Monday that it had ordered Airbnb to artifact much than 65,000 vacation listings connected its level for having violated rules.

The user rights ministry said that galore of the 65,935 Airbnb listings it had ordered to beryllium withdrawn did not see their licence fig oregon specify whether the proprietor was an idiosyncratic oregon a company. Others listed numbers that didn't lucifer what authorities had.

Spain is grappling with a housing affordability crisis that has spurred authorities enactment against short-term rental companies.

In caller months, tens of thousands of Spaniards person taken to the streets protesting rising lodging and rental costs, which galore accidental person been driven up by vacation rentals connected platforms similar Airbnb that person proliferated successful cities similar Madrid and Barcelona and galore different fashionable tourer destinations.

Last year, Barcelona announced a program to adjacent down all of the 10,000 apartments licensed successful the metropolis arsenic short-term rentals by 2028 to safeguard the lodging proviso for full-time residents.

A spokesperson for Airbnb could not beryllium instantly reached for comment.

Spain's authorities said the archetypal circular of rentals affected by the bid are located crossed the country, including successful the superior of Madrid, successful Andalusia and besides successful Catalonia, whose superior is Barcelona.

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