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Episode: Spain orders Airbnb to block nearly 66,000 holiday rental listings over rule violations
Description: Spain has ordered Airbnb to block more than 65,000 holiday listings on its platform for having violated rules, the Consumer Rights Ministry said.
The ministry said that many of the 65,935 Airbnb listings it had ordered to be withdrawn did not include their license number or specify whether the owner was an individual or a company. Others listed numbers that didn't match what the authorities had, it said.
Spain is grappling with a housing affordability crisis that has spurred government action against short-term rental companies.
In recent months, tens of thousands of Spaniards have taken to the streets protesting rising housing and...