Document type
ArticleVersion
Accepted versionPublication date
All rights reserved
Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/228285
Home-sharing as transnational moorings: Insights from Barcelona
Journal Title
Director/Tutor
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Related resource
Abstract
Barcelona, one of the main destinations for Airbnb users, has turned into one of the main stages for the now global debate around short-term rentals and their impacts on resident communities. Criticism has mostly focused on the conversion of housing into conventional tourist apartments while less attention has been paid to the problematization of short-term rentals in primary residences. Important questions thus arise as to whether these allegedly genuine forms of home-sharing should be 'formalised' at all through a regulation, and which type of controls should be applied. Our research helps to excavate this issue, shedding further light on the different logics and practices behind the development of home-sharing, and discusses the limitations of a regulation which is being introduced. To this end, it offers an in-depth analysis of the home-sharing supply in Barcelona, tackling its social and spatial logics, which is framed in the broader debate on processes of social change affecting inner cities. It then focuses on el Raval, one of Barcelona's core neighbourhoods where home-sharing practices have become more diffused, revealing how these practices are strongly correlated with high residential mobility and the presence of a single-dweller childless European resident population. Finally, we argue that home-sharing becomes an equally problematic agency of conversion of housing into a mooring for mobile communities, further contributing to potential gentrification and the displacement of residents.
Subject (English)
Citation
Collections
Citation
ARIAS SANS, Albert, QUAGLIERI DOMÍNGUEZ, Alan and RUSSO, Antonio Paolo. Home-sharing as transnational moorings: Insights from Barcelona. City. Volume 26. Vol. 2022 - Issue 1, num. 160-178. ISSN 1470-3629. [consulted: 13 of June of 2026]. Available at: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/228285