Tourisification and short-term rentals like Airbnb are destroying Galway’s housing market. Long-term residents are being displaced, rents are unaffordable and rising every year, and ties that bind Galway’s communities together are being eroded.
More and more, we are seeing vacant houses being converted into tourist accommodations while Galway’s residents are forced out of their actual homes.
The housing crisis in Galway demands action-together, we can take a stand.
Galway’s housing crisis isn’t going away on its own – and one of the biggest culprits is hiding in plain sight. Across the city and county, whole houses and apartments that could be home to long-term tenants instead stand empty, snapped up by landlords chasing short-term Airbnb profits. CATU Galway is calling on every one…
Why this campaign Housing in Galway is at crisis point. With few houses available, skyrocketing rents, and increasing levels of homelessness, we are in the midst of a housing disaster. A key factor in this is the increase in landlords illegally turning houses into short-term lets (STLs) and advertising them on sites such as Airbnb….
To help curb the skyrocketing cost of rent and tackle the housing crisis, CATU Galway wants an enforced cap on short-term lets in Galway.
We want to introduce a short term letting tourist register, and the council to enforce the existing legislation requiring short term lets to apply for planning permission.
