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Tourists sleep in spaces that could be houses for residents.

Said tourists still pay the local residents money for that. So the locals make money. Which in my opinion is a good thing.

Probably the vast majority of local residents aren't landlords making money on tourist housing...

Which was my main point from the get go

I don't really understand your point... that the problem is non-local people making money on housing?

Even if it was only local people making money on housing this would be a net negative to local residents. Housing that exists is placed on the "global" market rather than the local one. Unavailable to anyone but tourists.

They are saying foreigners consuming for private use/cleaning money and taking them off the market entirely is a separate and greater issue. Not for rental.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/21/upshot/when-the-empty-apa...

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