Descripción del proyecto
Un estudio más detallado sobre los vínculos entre los alquileres a corto plazo y la financierización de la vivienda
Desde 2008, más de 500 millones de personas han utilizado Airbnb, el sitio web para compartir vivienda, en más de 100 000 ciudades de 191 países. No hay duda de que las plataformas digitales como Airbnb han sacudido el mercado del alquiler a corto plazo y dado lugar a diversos problemas, preocupaciones y debates a nivel local y nacional. Uno de los debates en curso deriva del hecho de que los alquileres a corto plazo se han profesionalizado. Ya no los cubre la «economía compartida», en la que los anfitriones a veces comparten sus casas con visitantes. El proyecto POLIS, financiado con fondos europeos, estudiará casos en dos ciudades de la Unión Europea, Lisboa y Leipzig, para comprender las relaciones entre los alquileres a corto plazo y la financierización de la vivienda. Investigará hasta qué punto canaliza Airbnb la inversión financiera en el mercado de la vivienda.
Objetivo
The success of digital platforms such as Airbnb and the subsequent proliferation of short-term rentals in cities have caused many challenges for local authorities, especially regarding the regulation and mitigation of their social impacts. Current attempts to regulate short-term rentals assume that Airbnb and similar providers are part of the so-called ‘sharing economy’ in which hosts would occasionally share their homes with visitors. However, there is increased evidence that short-term rentals have become professionalised, and that individual and corporate investors have started to channel substantial investment into this market. In this regard, POLIS explores the links between short-term rentals and housing financialisation and, in doing so, will provide innovative understandings of the Airbnb-led restructuring of local housing markets. POLIS draws on the principles of evidence-based policy making with the aim of advancing policy innovation for the regulation of this emerging economic sector. In particular, POLIS will address three research objectives: it will (i) examine the professionalisation of the short-term rental market; (ii) investigate to what extent Airbnb channels financial investment into the housing market; (iii) elaborate alternative policy proposals for positive change. POLIS is a gender-sensitive project and has an intrinsic gender dimension in all phases of the research. The project will explore the cases of two European cities: Lisbon and Leipzig. It will provide comparative insights into a topic that has proved to be of significant political, economic and spatial relevance. Research objectives will be addressed using a mixed-method design that collects and analyses data from a variety of sources, especially in-depth interviews and critical policy analysis. With short-term rentals on the agendas of local authorities in different contexts, the POLIS project will produce high quality transferable outcomes for other EU cities and beyond.
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MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF)Coordinador
LS2 9JT Leeds
Reino Unido