Valentina Reino: Airbnb is not to blame for the housing problem

The exemption from restrictions, adjacent successful the centre of Athens, of tiny backstage individuals with 1 oregon 2 listings who occasionally rent their homes to tourists is projected by Airbnb, portion arguing that immoderate restrictive measures taken should beryllium afloat targeted, successful dialog with each stakeholders and with a continuous reappraisal of the existent marketplace information each year.

At a clip erstwhile Housing is consistently successful the spotlight, arsenic was besides evident astatine this year’s Thessaloniki International Fair, the starring planetary short-term rental level takes a basal and puts guardant its ain proposals connected the issue, arsenic captured successful an interrogation with Valentina Reino, Policy Manager for Airbnb successful Greece. She argues that the existent causes of the Housing Crisis not lone successful our state but besides successful different European markets, absorption connected 3 main elements: the constricted proviso of housing, insufficient concern successful affordable lodging and the precocious fig of vacant properties. “In Athens, 1 successful 4 houses remains vacant,” helium says, refuting disapproval that it is short-term rentals that are exacerbating the problem, since “properties exclusively for short-term rentals relationship for conscionable 0.4% of each lodging successful Greece and 1% of lodging successful cardinal Athens.”