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Podcast: The Bunker – News without the nonsense
Episode: Rental breakdown: How Airbnb is making towns unliveable
Description: Airbnb has enabled people to earn more by letting second houses as holiday lets than to families. What does this mean for locals in tourist areas? With housing provision at an all time low, the Welsh Government is looking at a system of carrots and sticks to incentivise landlords to prioritise locals. Can this problem be fixed? Dr Steffan Evans from the Bevan Foundation talks to Hannah Fearn about the communities facing an Airbnb boom.
“In every single Welsh local authority bar one a property owner could make as much money in 10 weeks as letting out...