Descrizione del progetto
Uno sguardo più attento ai collegamenti tra affitti a breve termine e finanziarizzazione degli alloggi
Dal 2008, il sito Airbnb di condivisione di alloggi è stato adoperato da oltre 500 milioni di persone in più di 100 000 città in 191 paesi. Indubbiamente, le piattaforme digitali come Airbnb hanno dato una scossa al mercato degli affitti a breve termine e dato origine a diverse problematiche, preoccupazioni e dibattiti a livello locale e nazionale. Uno dei dibattiti in atto scaturisce dal fatto che gli affitti a breve termine abbiano acquisito un aspetto professionale poiché non sono più in mano all’«economia della condivisione», che vede i proprietari condividere occasionalmente le proprie case con i turisti. Il progetto POLIS, finanziato dall’UE, analizzerà i casi di due città, Lisbona e Lipsia, per comprendere il rapporto tra affitti a breve termine e finanziarizzazione degli alloggi ed esaminerà la portata di Airbnb nel convogliare investimenti finanziari sul mercato immobiliare.
Obiettivo
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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(si apre in una nuova finestra) H2020-MSCA-IF-2019
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