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Several groups are calling for a toughening of anti-Airbnb measures

2021-10-16T18:58:03.502Z


Several groups met on Saturday in front of the Parisian Airbnb headquarters to protest against "drifts, excesses and


“Airbnb everywhere, accommodation nowhere”. The banner was unrolled for a few minutes, the time of a powerful communication operation, this Saturday afternoon in front of the national headquarters of the American start-up of short-term rentals Place de l'Opéra, in the heart of the capital. A highly symbolic place for the ten or so members of different Collectives who came to denounce "the enormous scale of furnished tourist accommodation which affects all regions". "We have also come to warn about Airbnb's deployment strategy towards the coast and towards smaller tourist towns in response to the restrictive measures put in place in large cities like Paris", explains Emma Tosini, co-founder and spokesperson for the Alda association - which means Change in the Basque language - created just a year ago in Bayonne.At his side, members of the “ParisvsBnb” and “Saint-Malo, I live… I stay there! ".

All three are calling for a series of general measures against the proliferation of tourist furnished rentals.

First that "taxation be reversed".

“The taxation of short-term rentals must be stricter and more onerous than that which weighs on long-term rentals”, pleaded Franck Rolland, member of the “Saint-Malo, I live… I stay there!

".

“The law must also allow municipalities with less than 200,000 inhabitants who are not in a tense area to adopt stricter regulations to reduce the number of short-term rentals.

Likewise, we demand to be received as representatives of the inhabitants by the commission set up by the Minister of Housing Emmanuelle Wargon ”, he underlines.

Véronique's fight in Saint-Malo

For Franck Rolland as for Emma Tosini, "the objective is to succeed in uniting against the excesses, the excesses and the massification of short-term rental offers, to group together other cities that want to regulate this type of rental". As Saint-Malo did recently. Its City Council adopted two drastic measures in June to reduce the number of short-term rentals. First, it limits short-term rental to one unit per owner for a period of three years. Then, it imposes a quota of rentals in each of the four districts of the city. Thus, within the city walls, only 6.25% of housing located in the coastal zone can be rented for short periods, against 12.5% ​​within the city walls. "A procedure was launched against this municipal decision but the justice rejected it,emphasizing that the freedom to enjoy one's property is superior to the freedom to undertake ”, insists Franck Rolland, stressing that“ there are tools for regulating short-term rental ”. Véronique, 58, mother of two children, came to testify. Since 2016, she has initiated legal proceedings against her neighbors, a French couple residing in Canada, who rented their apartment in Saint-Malo for a very short period. “They used a concierge and housekeeping between two rentals. We could hear them constantly presenting the property to new tourists and then doing the cleaning without any respect for us… Between the comings and goings and the noise pollution, I came to leave my accommodation, ”he says. she. She uses the imperfect because after five years of proceedings,this summer she won her case in court. "My neighbors no longer have the right to rent short-term ... They have appealed but the judge's decision is enforceable, they can no longer rent short-term," she blows.

Fight against drifts

In the Basque Country, the Alda association accounts for "at least 6,000 to 7,000 permanently furnished accommodation out of the 41,000 private dwellings in the Basque Country urban community," according to Emma Tosini. "It is important to fight against the excesses of tourist rental because we can see that it poses a problem for the middle class, which has difficulty finding accommodation and is forced to move back to live further away ... The subject go up, ”she assures us. After several meetings with elected officials, she hopes "that by the end of the year the urban community of the Basque Country will have a compensation system like in Paris where the rental of furnished tourist accommodation must be compensated. through a more sustainable rental year round. "It would be a stage victory", she concludes,sure that "the excesses of furnished tourist rental and more generally everything related to housing as a place of life, will prevail at the heart of the presidential campaign" which begins.

Source: leparis

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