Paris is coming for your Airbnb. And the rest of Europe is watching.
The city's deputy mayor for housing has put a number on it — 20,000 apartments he wants reclaimed from the short-term rental market. Investigators are already knocking on doors. Literally.
The message from City Hall? "We want to show that from now on, it is not a great investment."
That's not a warning. That's a policy statement.
And from 20 May, it gets harder to hide. The EU's new data-sharing regulation means Airbnb, Booking.com and every major platform will be required to hand host data directly to authorities — giving cities the enforcement infrastructure they've always lacked.
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