Catalan socialism Ada C. Bee – Diario de la Marina

Colau sends letters to Barcelona to denounce the tourist flats

Source: LD

The City Council is sending neighbors a letter to denounce if your building has an illegal tourist accommodation. the consistory led by Ada Colau ensures that there is an illegal offer rental accommodation that generates “speculation, underground economy and can damage the coexistence in neighboring communities that host them, “reports Idealistic News . The letter states that want to end the supply of illegal tourist accommodation, because it is “unsustainable and disrespectful to current legislation.”

Therefore, the City Council has intensified inspection against illegal vacation homes and one of the emergency measures put in place is to involve neighbors to denounce if there is housing rented illegally to tourists how their building for less than 31 days time.

Colau says it has also expanded the staff dedicated to inspection tasks, besides raising penalties up to 600,000 euro s cons households that do not have a municipal license. The City Council has also opened a website where you can see all the addresses of apartments for tourist use with licenciaactualmente in the city and therefore are legal.

For a tourist housing is deemed legal in Barcelona, ​​ Administration must grant a license it fulfills all the requirements established by law. You must also have a certificate of occupancy and can not stay in it more people than it establishes. On the inside of the housing, you must be in good health, furnished and contain all the necessary utensils for habitation.

The owner of the tourist housing will have to register the property in the Register Tourism of Catalonia (RTC) , which is attached to the Directorate General of Tourism of the Generalitat of Catalonia. In addition, guests must collect the tax on overnight stays in tourist establishments in Catalonia (the tourist rate). And the holder must ensure that the tourist use of the home is not prohibited in the statutes of the community in those buildings subjected to horizontal property regime.