Airbnb has come under pressure from both sides of the Atlantic.
Canada’s biggest city, Toronto, has just won a lawsuit against the increasing number of so-called ‘ghost hotels’ in the city, and Paris, have condemned The International Olympic Committee (IOC) to enter into a sponsorship agreement with udlejningsportalen.
In Toronto, the authorities have, after nearly two years of appeals, now got a court gokendelse of their law, aiming to control the korttidsudlejninger. It writes The Guardian.
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The new rules forcing landlords in Toronto to stay in the home, as the landlord at the korttidsbasis. They must at the same time, only rent three rooms out of the hallway, and they must be registered with the authorities, when they rent rooms out.
In recent years, Toronto has experienced a housing shortage, and Airbnb and other similar platforms to get the blame. Critics believe that the platforms encourage landlords to move their properties away from the long-term lease. In a study conducted by McGill University in Montreal, estimated it, to 31.000 homes across Canada have gone from long term rental to short term rental.
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A spokesperson from Airbnb, has stated to The Guardian that the new rules ‘in an unjust way punishes’ landlords, however, that the company will work within Toronto’s laws, once they enter into force.
It is estimated that 5000 apartments in Toronto will return to being rented out on langtidsbasis.
French criticize the IOC and their cooperation with the Airbnb
on Tuesday, expressed the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, that she was determined to check Airbnb and threatened to ban the platform from certain parts of the city.
the Authorities in Paris are accusing Airbnb of creating a shortage of housing in the city and push the rents so much in the weather, to the middle class now can no longer afford to live in Paris.
Anne Hidalgo has already introduced restrictions, which means that landlords can only rent out the 120 days per year and must register the apartments by the authorities. Paris has given Airbnb a fine of 12.5 million euros (93,4 million), because they do not have removed unregistered landlords from the platform.
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The French capital is one of the biggest markets for Airbnb. There are about 60,000 rooms, apartments and houses in Paris on the platform today. In 2012, there were 4000.
Paris has long tried to control the situation, and therefore, it was also controversial that the IOC entered into a nine-year sponsorship with Airbnb. The Olympic Games will be held in Paris in 2024.
In a letter to the IOC president, Thomas Bach, before the sponsorship was entered into, warn Hidalgo that cooperation is risky.
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– By removing a significant number of rental apartments in Paris, helps Airbnb to the rising rents and exacerbating the shortage of apartments on the rental market, which is costly for all parisians, especially the middle class, writes Anne Hidalgo, mayor of Paris.
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Jean-François Martins, deputy mayor of Paris and responsible for sports and tourism, said according to The Guardian, that if Anne Hidalgo will be re-elected for the next year’s municipal elections, will the city council with the same organize an election in which the inhabitants of Paris can determine ‘the conditions under which Airbnb must be used.’
– Parisians will be able to choose between several options, among other things, the possibility of banning Airbnb in certain areas, says Jean-François Martins.
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Airbnbs founder, Joe Gebbia think the opposite, that the sponsorship will make The Olympic Games even better.
– the Partnership will ensure that the Games are the most inclusive, accessible and sustainable so far, says Joe Gebbia.
