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Re:Squatting in Spain: Understanding Spain's "okupas" problem by petre on Friday June 07, 2024 @12:27AM (#40605344)
> e.g. by introducing taxes for empty properties

So the speculators set up a company, buy the property and list it on AirBnB at several times the market price. Now it's not an empty property, it's a business. Business is slow so they only have to bother with guests during spikes in demend.

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Re:Squatting in Spain: Understanding Spain's "okupas" problem by tieandjeans on Friday June 07, 2024 @05:16AM (#40606803)
To get around this, we'll establish complex municipal regulations around AirBnB, with steeply escalating punitive fines.

https://airbtics.com/airbnb-regulation-in-barcelona/

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Re:Squatting in Spain: Understanding Spain's "okupas" problem by kjkjadksj on Friday June 07, 2024 @11:19AM (#40609529)
And then you list it illegally anyhow.
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