Regulation of short-term rentals in Lisbon: strike a balance between tourism dependence and urban life

Pereira, Sandra Marques

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“…Corporate buildings and other privately owned facilities-a research centre and a hospital-showcase that private actors also value the riverfront location. Driven by this valorisation, together with other investment and urban renewal policies [73], the existing building stock is also subject to change, although in a more piecemeal renovation approach, with increasing commercial, housing (high income and The changes are not limited to the urban structures and the public space of the city, several new buildings, works of considerable size, have been changing the city's riverfront structure, uses and image. For instance, the investments in transport and mobility infrastructures (intermodal stations, underground stations, elevators) improved movements in the city and even in the LMA and facilitated pedestrian and cycling enjoyment of this area; while cultural buildings, mostly new museums added to the existent facilities in increasing leisure and tourism uses.…”

Section: The Renewal Of Waterfront Areas In Lisbonmentioning

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“…Corporate buildings and other privately owned facilities-a research centre and a hospital-showcase that private actors also value the riverfront location. Driven by this valorisation, together with other investment and urban renewal policies [73], the existing building stock is also subject to change, although in a more piecemeal renovation approach, with increasing commercial, housing (high income and luxury, short-term rentals) and touristic uses. Finally, a number of large-scale urban developments are set to take place, converting disused industrial and port areas and other urban voids: private operations target high segment housing areas while public-led initiatives focus on mixed-use areas or environmental requalification.…”

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Urban Planning Policies to the Renewal of Riverfront Areas: The Lisbon Metropolis Case

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Urban planning offers various design possibilities to solve fundamental challenges faced in urban areas. These include the need to physically renew old industrial and harbour riverside areas into liveable, inclusive and sustainable living spaces. This paper investigates the way urban planning policies have helped to renew the waterfront areas in the Lisbon metropolis in the past decades. For this purpose, the contribution of the European Union (EU) and national urban development plans over the past decades are analysed. The results demonstrate an intense renewal of the waterfront areas in the Lisbon metropolitan area (LMA), particularly in Lisbon over the past three decades into leisure, ecologic and touristic areas, vis-à-vis the previous industrial and harbour vocation.

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“…Corporate buildings and other privately owned facilities-a research centre and a hospital-showcase that private actors also value the riverfront location. Driven by this valorisation, together with other investment and urban renewal policies [73], the existing building stock is also subject to change, although in a more piecemeal renovation approach, with increasing commercial, housing (high income and luxury, short-term rentals) and touristic uses. Finally, a number of large-scale urban developments are set to take place, converting disused industrial and port areas and other urban voids: private operations target high segment housing areas while public-led initiatives focus on mixed-use areas or environmental requalification.…”

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Urban Planning Policies to the Renewal of Riverfront Areas: The Lisbon Metropolis Case

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“…Broader changes in the national regulatory and policy environment can also fuel the growth of STR, as illustrated by the case of Lisbon. From 2012 onwards, a combination of national reforms in the fields of taxation, visa, citizenship and rental legislation has had a dramatic impact on the pace of conversion of housing units into STR (Mendes, 2018;Cócola Gant and Gago, 2019;Marques Pereira, 2020). These reforms have strongly incentivised foreign investments into Portuguese real estate and made it easier for long-term tenants to be displaced in favour of STR.…”

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“…In other cities, interviews showed that while dedicated grassroots campaigns against STR might not have emerged per se, the issue of STR regulation has become increasingly integrated into the debates and demands of existing social movements, for example the tenants' movement in Berlin or housing rights collectives in Lisbon (Marques Pereira, 2020) and Madrid (Wilson et al, 2021). Such movements criticize STR as a factor that fuels evictions, the displacement of long-term residents and the gentrification of neighbourhoods.…”

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Regulating Short-Term Rentals: Platform-based property rentals in European cities: the policy debates

Colomb¹,

Souza²

2021

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Short-term rentals mediated by digital platforms have positive and negative impacts that are unevenly distributed among socio-economic groups and places. Detrimental impacts on the housing market and quality of life of long-term residents have been particular contentious in some cities. • In the 12 cities studied in the report (Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Brussels, Lisbon, London, Madrid, Milan, Paris, Prague, Rome and Vienna), city governments have responded differently to the growth of short-term rentals. • The emerging local regulations of short-term rentals take multiple forms and exhibit various degrees of stringency, ranging from rare cases of laissez-faire to a few cases of partial prohibition or strict quantitative control. Most city governments have sought to find a middle-ground approach that differentiates between the professional rental of whole units and the occasional rental of one’s home/ primary residence. • The regulation of short-term rentals is contentious and highly politicised. Six broad categories of interest groups and non-state actors actively participate in the debates with contrasting positions: advocates of the ‘sharing’ or ‘collaborative’ economy; corporate platforms; professional organisatons of short-term rental operators; new associations of hosts or ‘home-sharers’; the hotel and hospitality industry; and residents’ associations/citizens’ movements. • All city governments face difficulties in implementing and enforcing the regulations, due to a lack of sufficient resources and to the absence of accurate and comprehensive data on individual hosts. That data is held by corporate platforms, which have generally not accepted to release it (with a few exceptions) nor to monitor the content of their listings against local rules. • The relationships between platforms and city governments have oscillated between collaboration and conflict. Effective implementation is impossible without the cooperation of platforms. • In the context of the European Union, the debate has taken a supranational dimension, as two pieces of EU law frame the possibility — and acceptable forms — of regulation of online platforms and of short-term rentals in EU member states: the 2000 E-Commerce Directive and the 2006 Services Directive. • For regulation to be effective, the EU legal framework should be revised to ensure platform account- ability and data disclosure. This would allow city (and other ti ers of) governments to effectively enforce the regulations that they deem appropriate. • Besides, national and regional governments, who often control the legislative framework that defines particular types of short-term rentals, need to give local governments the necessary tools to be able to exercise their ‘right to regulate’ in the name of public interest objectives.

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“…Significant restrictions on the functioning of STRs have been introduced in Germany and France, and lesser ones in Portugal [ 26 ]. However, specific forms of legislative STR regulations have been introduced locally in many European cities [ 22 , 27 , 28 ]. In Poland, such attempts are under discussion [ 26 , 29 ].…”

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How the COVID-19 Pandemic Affected the Functioning of Tourist Short-Term Rental Platforms (Airbnb and Vrbo) in Polish Cities

Kowalczyk-Anioł

Kacprzak

Szafrańska

2022

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The article presents the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on urban tourism activity on short-term rental (STR) platforms in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). It offers empirical evidence of how Airbnb and HomeAway (Vrbo) changed in Polish cities during the COVID-19 pandemic. A case study of Polish cities was also used to investigate what pandemic-induced scenarios of that impact are presented in the literature. In particular, the study identifies “loser” cities, in which the pandemic consolidated and deepened the decline in active STR volume, and “winner” cities, in which the volume and dynamics of the active STRs increased during the pandemic.

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Regulation of short-term rentals in Lisbon: strike a balance between tourism dependence and urban life

Cited by 22 publications

References 55 publications

Urban Planning Policies to the Renewal of Riverfront Areas: The Lisbon Metropolis Case

Urban Planning Policies to the Renewal of Riverfront Areas: The Lisbon Metropolis Case

Regulating Short-Term Rentals: Platform-based property rentals in European cities: the policy debates

How the COVID-19 Pandemic Affected the Functioning of Tourist Short-Term Rental Platforms (Airbnb and Vrbo) in Polish Cities

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