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SUMMARY:PEM Seminar Series-Prof Claire Colomb (UCL) “Our city is not for 
 sale”. The politics of regulation of platform-mediated short-term holida
 y rentals in European cities
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DESCRIPTION:“Our city is not for sale”. The politics of regulation of pla
 tform-mediated short-term holiday rentals in European cities\n\nIn the s
 pace of a few years\, short-term (“holiday”) rentals have become a conte
 ntious issue in many cities around the world. Their proliferation was fa
 cilitated by the emergence of new forms of ‘platform capitalism’ shaped 
 by for-profit online platforms which organise supply and demand and take
  a commission for intermediation – the most well-known being Airbnb. The
  issue of platform-mediated short-term rentals (PM-STR) has become widel
 y discussed in the media and local political arenas. Actors as diverse a
 s grassroots movements and professional hotel associations have begun to
  challenge the impacts of PM-STR on neighbourhoods\, housing markets\, r
 esidents\, and incumbent economic actors. As a result\, some city govern
 ments have recently passed new regulations attempting to control the pro
 liferation of STR and the activities of platforms. In the European conte
 xt\, the responses of city governments have been very diverse. I will pr
 esent the first results of a research project (carried out in collaborat
 ion with Dr Tatiana Moreira\, Dr Francesca Artioli and Dr Thomas Aguiler
 a) which seeks to explore and compare the politicization and collective 
 mobilization process around PM-STR in Europe\, the diversity of emerging
  forms of regulation in 12 large European cities\, and the challenging e
 nforcement and implementation of such regulatory attempts. \n\nNewly dev
 eloped policy responses\, we argue\, are not only the mere result of dif
 ferent structural political-economic conditions. By adopting on a sociol
 ogical approach to public policy analysis\, we looked comparatively at h
 ow the struggle between collective actors with various interests\, modes
  of action and narratives - embedded into place-specific institutional a
 rrangements – can help to explain the differences in the regulations pas
 sed in various cities. Three main findings emerge. First\, the diversity
  of regulation of PM-STR among cities can be explained by the type of ac
 tors who politicized the issue in the first place and framed it within a
  specific policy sector (housing\, tourism\, economic development)\, the
  pre-existing policy instruments traditionally used in that sector\, and
  the distribution of competences between the city and other tiers of gov
 ernment (region and/or central state). Second\, both the policy framing 
 and the enacted regulations (namely their very existence\, legitimacy\, 
 degree of stringency and instruments) remain an unstable and contested m
 atter\, because they are subject to intense political mobilisation by si
 x types of actors: professional STR operators\, associations of hosts or
  ‘home-sharers’\, the hotel industry\, residents’ associations or citize
 ns’ movements\, ‘sharing economy’ advocates\, and corporate platforms. T
 hese actors (pre-existing or new) have clashing interests and construct 
 different narratives regarding the urban land use and the economic activ
 ity represented by PM-STR. In so doing\, they discursively claim differe
 nt types of ‘rights’ in this contentious politics of regulation. In this
  process\, Airbnb and other major platforms act as ‘regulatory entrepren
 eurs’ (Pollman and Barry\, 2017)\, and\, we argue\, have become a new si
 gnificant urban governance actor. Finally\, I will show how the intense 
 local conflicts around the politics of regulation are undergoing both a 
 process of judicialization and of rescaling towards the European Union l
 evel.\n\nReferences:\n•	Aguilera\, T.\, Artioli\, F. & Colomb\, C. (2019
 ) Explaining the diversity of policy responses to platform-mediated shor
 t-term rentals in European cities: a comparison of Barcelona\, Paris and
  Milan\, Environment and Planning A\, DOI:10.1177/0308518X19862286.\n•	A
 guilera\, T.\, Artioli F.\, and Colomb\, C. (2019) Les villes contre Air
 bnb? Locations meublées de courte durée\, plateformes numériques et gouv
 ernance urbaine : enjeux de régulation dans les villes européennes. In :
  Courmont\, A. and Le Galès\, P. (eds) Gouverner la Ville Numérique. Par
 is: PUF - Vie des Idées.\n•	Colomb\, C. and Moreira\, Regulating platfor
 m-mediated short-term rentals in large European cities: debates\, policy
  approaches and implementation challenges. Report for the Royal Institut
 ion of Chartered Surveyors Research Trust (forthcoming\, 2020\, https://
 www.rics.org/uk/news-insight/research/research-trust/)\n•	Novy\, J. & Co
 lomb\, C. (2019) Urban tourism as a source of contention and social mobi
 lisations: a critical review\, Tourism Planning & Development\, 16(4): 3
 58-375.\n\n\n
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