I'll repeat it forever, but minimum wage should be a liveable wage. It should be attached to some median cost of living for the area where the workers work.
this post was submitted on 07 Apr 2024
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The problem here is that you're competing with tourists sleeping four to a room and you just can't outbid them for apartments, even with high wages. The solution here is to set aside properties for resident locals so that they aren't forced to.
The conservative regional government of the Balearic Islands, which came into power last year, has chosen not to implement a housing law approved by the Spanish government in Madrid which seeks to cap rentals in areas of the country where they have soared.
Conservative regional government is just, choosing not to do anything, despite a law passed that would explicitly help this situation.
Instead, the local authorities mainly attribute the housing problem to homeowners in residential areas of Ibiza who are flouting the law by offering their properties for short-term rental, when local laws state they must rent for at least six months at a time.
So the local government has resorted to fining the people that don't bribe them.
It's a great system
I think going after short-term rentals is exactly what they should be doing. If they take bribes not to then that's a huge problem though.
This is well beyond what minimum wage is about. The authorities should heavily regulate tourism there and make sure it’s not damaging the local communities. This is not only within their power, it is also the very reason they exist
They need to regulate Airbnb and other rental companies turning housing into hotels.
I really don’t understand how we got in this situation. Almost everywhere in the world, tourism used to be heavily regulated. The number of hotels beds, hotel locations, the seats in restaurants, everything monitored restricted and taxed. And then in the space of 10 years, here we are…
Businesses are too fast for policy to keep up. Loopholes and gray area.
Silicon Valley companies realized that laws are optional.
Honestly, locals should just leave. Places there will quickly realize if they want to continue operating there they will have to pay what is a livible wage for the area.
Until someone stops doing their laundry, cooking their food, or doing the gardening, they might never realize how untenable their situation is.
- Where will the locals go? They have networks of support, professional networks, etc. those are hard to replicate elsewhere?
- How will they afford to leave and establish themselves? This is very hard to do when you already live close to poverty.
- What's to stop the rich folk from bringing in cheap "temporary foreign labour" that is housed in the same conditions? Dishes still get washed, it's just the poor locals and the exploited TFWs that lose out.
It’s not going to get better without violence. I am not advocating for that. Just a conjecture.
Since even the cops are homeless, that's likely.
The sad thing is that violence will most likely disproportionately affect those who are already most affected by this situation. An investment fund which owns some apartments there will just liquidate and buy somewhere else or even invest in somewhere else entirely. Ironically, they might make more money out of investing into the reconstruction of the area which saw violence.