Short-term rental hosts say they are not the problem

The Sharing Economy Association (SODIA), successful an extended announcement connected Friday, urged the authorities to prosecute successful dialog with actors successful the short-term rentals (STRs) marketplace earlier legislating, citing an Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB) study released successful May to support its case.

Far from being the bane of struggling households seeking rented accommodation, SODIA claimed, the AUEB study showed that STRs are really the “living pulse” of mean Greek families and a means to supplement their income.

SODIA is asking the authorities to analyse the information successful the AUEB study earlier legislating and take enactment to enactment the 2.28 cardinal presently vacant houses connected the market, and to invitation the radical of the STR marketplace to take portion successful a dialog earlier enacting laws.

“They are not investors, they are not speculators, they are families, couples, pensioners, young radical that use a home, a vacation property, an flat near to them by their parents to supplement their income,” SODIA said.

According to its president, Theodora Dima, the AUEB study intelligibly indicates that STRs enactment to support the Greek economy, boosting tourism, employment and helping the mean Greek family.

Based connected its findings, STRs adhd 11 cardinal euros, oregon 5% of the country’s GDP, to the system each year.

Each visitor spends wealth successful section markets, shops, connected taxis, cleaning and attraction companies, leaving wealth successful neighborhoods and to mean Greeks, alternatively than successful the hands of multinationals.