In Paris, flip of the screw towards “Airbnb” sort vacationer leases | EUROtoday

In Paris, will there be fewer wheeled suitcases and key bins in stairwells? A brand new step was taken on Thursday, December 19, by the Paris Council. This unanimously voted to decrease the variety of nights licensed for seasonal leases within the capital from 120 to 90 days per yr. The measure, made potential by the “Le Meur” regulation of November 19 on the regulation of furnished vacationer lodging, will take impact on 1^er January 2025.

In ten years, the enlargement of the Airbnb system has shaken up the capital, with optimistic results – a brand new lodging provide for vacationers, extra revenue for Parisians – but additionally a number of perverse results.

Among the latter, “the reduction in the number of housing units available for long-term rental, the increase in rents, noise pollution, an increase in the use of common areas of buildings, the transformation of local shops”, lists Stéphanie Jankel, director of research on the Atelier Parisien d’urbanisme.

In current years, the variety of furnished vacationer lodging provided on the assorted platforms has exploded: on the finish of 2024, it’ll attain 95,000, in accordance with the city corridor – that’s twice as many as in 2022. The 18^e district is the one with essentially the most, adopted by 11^e and 15^e. And but, the sector is already extremely regulated: for instance, it’s prohibited to hire a second dwelling “in Airbnb”, except you enter into an onerous monetary compensation mechanism. It is nonetheless potential to hire industrial premises or an workplace reworked into lodging, upon municipal authorization for change of use.

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