Housing Under Platform Capitalism : The Contentious Regulation of Short-Term Rentals in European Cities

Thomas Aguilera

ISBN 10: 0520418077 / ISBN 13: 9780520418073

Published by University Of California Press Jun 2025, 2025

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Neuware - 'Housing Under Platform Capitalism offers a compelling analysis of how European city governments tackle short-term rentals and sheds light on the connections between platform capitalism and housing financialization. It reveals diverse policy responses, making it a novel and essential contribution to urban political economy.'--Manuel B. Aalbers, Professor of Human Geography, KU Leuven, and author of The Financialization of Housing.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Housing Under Platform Capitalism : The Contentious Regulation of Short-Term Rentals in European Cities
• Publisher: University Of California Press Jun 2025
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0520418077
• ISBN 13: 9780520418073
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 229W x 152H x 30D millimeters 229 millimeters width by 152 millimeters height by 30 millimeters depth
• Weight: 771 grams

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Synopsis

Since the birth of Airbnb in 2008, many of the world's cities have been transformed by platform-mediated short-term accommodation—a phenomenon suspected of disturbing local life and removing dwellings from local housing inventories. Drawing on mixed-method, multi-level comparative research in twelve large European cities, coauthors Thomas Aguilera, Francesca Artioli, and Claire Colomb show that strikingly different regulatory regimes have emerged around short-term rentals.

In some cities, policies aim to curb this practice; in others, regulations are simply meant to support the market. These responses are motivated by a variety of political choices and pressures, from grassroots movements to property interests, the tourism industry, and municipal welfare and housing systems. This book makes a crucial contribution to comparative urban politics in the twenty-first century, investigating the capacity of local states to govern housing markets and platform capitalism in an era of globalized human and capital flows. In the face of this worldwide shift, Housing Under Platform Capitalism insists that institutions and regulations can champion the public good by protecting the right to housing and ultimately limiting corporate power.

About the Author

Thomas Aguilera is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Sciences Po Rennes - University of Rennes, France.
Francesca Artioli is Assistant Professor of Spatial Planning and Urban Policies at the Université Paris-Est Créteil, France.
Claire Colomb is Professor of Land Economy (Planning, Public Policy, and Urban Studies) at the University of Cambridge, UK.