The elimination of housing for tourist use (VUT) in Barcelona that wants the City Council of Jaume Collboni Executing in 2028 could put into play the permanence of large fairs and events for the city such as the Mobile World Congress (MWC) by … The remarkable loss of housing capacity that the city would suffer. This has been one of the messages released during the day ‘The regulation of tourist floors in Barcelona, a pioneer and risk successful model’ organized by departure this Tuesday in Madrid. “The prohibition will be valued by event organizers because they have to ensure that visitors stay comfortably,” he warned Jordi SalvadorResponsible for Strategy and Economics of the PWC consultant.
“We are not facing reorganization, we are facing a prohibition and the consequences have brutal figures,” the specialist lawyer has warned for his part In urban law of Garrigues, Pablo Molinawho has assured that eliminating the supply housing for tourist use (VUT) would mean renouncing 40% of the accommodation available throughout the capital.
Not just that. The different speakers who have participated in the day believe that they would also mean ending with a “pioneer” regulation and control model that serves as an example for other capitals in the fight against the illegal tourist apartment offer. According to Apartur, since 2016 around 10,000 floors that operated without permission have been closed.
“The ban is a tremendously drastic measure, it is impoverishing and does not entail any positive results,” Molina has alerted. “It is a resignation of the public administration to manage the tourist floors sector and take advantage of its economic and fiscal contribution in favor of citizens who will also resurface the illegal offer,” he added. In this sense, Molina has stated that the sector management allows to guarantee an order, control and quality to citizens, contributing to the economic development of the city and public coffers with taxes that can be used for general interest as housing policies. “However, the prohibition involves step back, by establishing an impoverishing model from all perspectives and does not guarantee that these homes will move on to the residential market.”
Impact of 1.9 billion
During the meeting, a report prepared by the PWC consultant has also emerged in which it is said that the activity of the VUT in the city generates an impact of 1.9 billion euros for the GDP of Barcelona, in addition to 40,000 jobs.
According to the same document, Short stay apartments represent 38% of the tourist accommodation throughout the citybut they are only 1.2% of the total house of the house. A fact with which they seek to unmark the repeated political accusations that the sector is behind the rise in housing prices both for rent and purchase. «Any decision, to be efficient, must be encouraged in data and not in perceptions, and the PWC report provides relevant information on the contribution of the tourist use homes of Barcelona and about the error that its prohibition involves raising. And we do not say only us, the Bank of Spain recommends that any restrictive measure on non -residential use housing must take into account a global evaluation of its impact, ”said the president of Apartur, Enrique Alcántara.
At the moment, the partners of the association that represents the owners of tourist apartments in Barcelona has submitted patrimonial claims to the Generalitat of Catalonia worth 4,280 million euros equivalent to the investments made in 7,200 floors and the economic return they would get if they continue with the activity. The decision of the Barcelona Consistory is protected by Decree Law 3/2023 of the Generalitat that allows the current licenses to be left within five years since its entry into force.
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