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Illegal short-term rentals, regulatory enforcement and informal practices in the age of digital platforms

Colomb, Claire; Moreira De Souza, Tatiana; (2023) Illegal short-term rentals, regulatory enforcement and informal practices in the age of digital platforms. European Urban and Regional Studies 10.1177/09697764231155386. Green open access

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Abstract

This article analyses the challenges of controlling short-term rentals (STR) in an era of intermediation by digital platforms, focusing on the process of regulatory enforcement. Drawing on evidence from large European cities, it investigates how public authorities identify and tackle STR deemed illegal, how operators of illegal STR seek to escape detection, and the relationships between city governments and digital platforms in the process of regulatory enforcement. The article shows what digitalisation and ‘platformisation’ do to the possibility of (local) state regulation of housing informality and illegality in the European context. As platforms have been reluctant to release individualised STR listings to local authorities, the latter have had to rely on imperfect, ‘DIY’ methods of data gathering in the physical and digital worlds, in the context of attempts to regulate STR for public interest objectives such as the protection of the long-term residential stock.

Type: Article
Title: Illegal short-term rentals, regulatory enforcement and informal practices in the age of digital platforms
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1177/09697764231155386
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1177/09697764231155386
Language: English
Additional information: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
Keywords: Data, digital platforms, housing, illegality, informality, local government, regulatory enforcement, short-term rentals
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > The Bartlett School of Planning
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10167227
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