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[vc_custom_heading text=”Love Your Community: Break Up with Airbnb” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff” use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1738504023695{margin-bottom: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;}”][vc_custom_heading text=”CATU Galway\u2019s Campaign Against Touristification and Short-Term Rentals” font_container=”tag:h3|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff” use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1738594787363{margin-top: 10px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;}”]

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.<\/p>\n

More and more, we are seeing vacant houses being converted into tourist accommodations while Galway’s residents are forced out of their actual homes.<\/p>\n

The housing crisis in Galway demands action-together, we can take a stand.<\/p><\/div> <\/div>

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Galway\u2019s housing crisis isn\u2019t going away on its own \u2013 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…<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\tRead More<\/span><\/a>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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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….<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\tRead More<\/span><\/a>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>

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