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> Agree with 1. Ban AirBnB. (this is already in play as I understand it)

I believe no new licenses are being granted. Personally, I don't think this goes far enough. Revoke existing licenses.

> The Golden Visa scheme is a nonsense (I think this is also being scrapped)

IMHO this was an overreaction. If the issue was pricing out locals, you could simply remove real estate as a qualifying investment under the visa and/or increase the minimum investment amount.

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> IMHO this was an overreaction. If the issue was pricing out locals, you could simply remove real estate as a qualifying investment under the visa and/or increase the minimum investment amount.

This is what the ban did. The golden visa for creating 10 non-temporary jobs remains, but for 9 years, there were 250 jobs created, with 20 takers (meaning almost all of them created the bare minimum 10 jobs).

https://observador.pt/2021/12/25/vistos-gold-criterio-de-cri...

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