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It's not about taxes, its about making it easier for the city to enforce the ban on short-term rentals.

It is definitely about both. And about returning the city to citizens who've been priced out by the tourism industry.

There's nothing wrong with being a cultural hot-ground, a travel destination, a mindshare icon... but turning a city into an intensive farming Disneyland is another thing.

It was already obligated to register every time you rented.

For what I know, it was rarely done for very short stays as it was meant and organized around the concept of traditional seasonal rents (i.e. students, workers on short assignment dispatches, transitions between longer stable residential arrangements.

This is especially designed around the distributed hotel business model, for which the previous tracking and enforcement infrastructure was not qualified for.

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