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Since the birth of Airbnb in 2008, many of the world's cities have been transformed by platform-mediated short-term accommodation—a phenomenon suspected of disturbing local life and removing dwellings from local housing inventories. Drawing on mixed-method, multi-level comparative research in twelve large European cities, coauthors Thomas Aguilera, Francesca Artioli, and Claire Colomb show that strikingly different regulatory regimes have emerged around short-term rentals.
In some cities, policies aim to curb this practice; in others, regulations are simply meant to support the market. These responses are motivated by a variety of political choices and pressures, from grassroots movements to property interests, the tourism industry, and municipal welfare and housing systems. This book makes a crucial contribution to comparative urban politics in the twenty-first century, investigating the capacity of local states to govern housing markets and platform capitalism in an era of globalized human and capital flows. In the face of this worldwide shift, Housing Under Platform Capitalism insists that institutions and regulations can champion the public good by protecting the right to housing and ultimately limiting corporate power.
Contents
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
PART I. PLATFORM CAPITALISM, SHORT-TERM RENTALS AND THEIR REGULATION: A FRAMEWORK
1. The Rise of Short-Term Rentals: Between Corporate Platforms, Tourism Flows and Housing Assetisation
2. Theorising and Researching the Regulation of Platform-Mediated Short-Term Rental Housing
PART II. VARIETIES OF REGULATORY REGIMES: THE THREE WORLDS OF STR REGULATION IN EUROPE
3. The Three Worlds of Short-Term Rental Regulation in European Cities
4. The Paths to Regulation: Emergence and Institutionalisation of Different STR Rules in Barcelona, Paris and Milan
PART III. STRUGGLING WITH COMMON CHALLENGES: IMPLEMENTATION, JUDICIALISATION AND MULTI-LEVEL GOVERNANCE
5. A Challenging Implementation: Regulatory Enforcement in the Digital Age
6. Platform Power, Grassroots Mobilisations and Political Clienteles
7. The Judicialisation and Transnationalisation of Local Conflicts: The European Union as a Regulatory Battleground
Conclusion: Urban Platform Capitalism, Governability and Democracy
Appendix: Note on Methods and Data Sources
Notes
References
Index
