00:01The EU has announced an affordable housing plan aimed at encouraging long-term rentals and making housing more accessible for
00:09Europeans.
00:10Unveiled on Wednesday, the plan aims to create clarity and predictability in how rules are applied by local authorities,
00:18particularly in neighbourhoods popular with tourists where short-term rentals have displaced residents.
00:24Thank you. Over the past 10 years, rents have gone up by 59% in Berlin, by 75% in
00:34Madrid, by 103% in Lisbon.
00:40This means that normal people with normal jobs, nurses, schoolteachers, police officers, are not able very often to live where
00:53they serve.
00:54Short-term rentals represent only 1.2% of the EU's total housing stock, but they can account for up
01:01to 20% in some tourism hotspots.
01:04Brussels estimates it needs more than 2 million new homes every year to fix the problem.
01:09Airbnb has criticised the plan as not sufficiently clear.
01:13The Affordable Housing Act will not add a single home to the long-term rental market.
01:18While adding regulatory uncertainty for hosts across European cities, the company wrote in a press statement.
01:26Housing policy choices remain the preserve of national authorities.
01:30The new Commission plan aims to provide a common European framework of rules to guide implementation on the ground.
01:40The вкус of the standard isницac and the local municipalities.
01:42The reason is, many years, difficult to make sure that the people who live and may be present.
01:42The new Commission plan brushes the 천cille and the Meu Deus, the country who live and may not be present.
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