Holiday Rental Boom Squeezes Out Residents in Spain's Malaga
The city has suspended new tourist rental licences for three years as short-term lets push up rents and reduce housing for residents, officials said.
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The LocalHoliday rental boom squeezes out residents in Spain's Málaga
Carlos Carrera Lopez has long lived in central Málaga but fears his neighbourhood in the southern Spanish city is slowly disappearing as holiday rentals and mass tourism drive residents out.
"We are fighting for this area to remain inhabited": in the historic heart of the Andalusian city, Carlos Carrera López warns about the "mass exodus" of residents in the face of a "very important" tourist pressure which threatens, according to him, the very balance of the streets where he has always lived. "It is his existence as a neighborhood that is at stake, because the inhabitants are being expelled from it", insists the doctor of professio…
In Malaga, a symbol of massive tourism in Spain, neighbors struggle to continue living in the historic center despite the housing crisis.
Holiday rental boom squeezes out residents in Spain's Malaga
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