The European Cities Using the Pandemic As a Cure for Airbnb

If you walked the streets of Lisbon at the end of last year, just after Portugal voted to reelect its surprisingly successful center/left coalition government, it wouldnt take long to notice something strange. The people spilling out of the capitals beautiful old apartment buildings were very often, very obviously, tourists not locals on their way to work, but usually groups of well-to-do 20-somethings looking for an upscale café or jumping on electric Ubers bicycles to find some attraction. Whe…

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