In Lisbon, Residents Seek a Vote on Banning Airbnb

António Melo has lived all his seventy-one years in Lisbon’s Alfama neighborhood. But after the owner sold the building to a tourist accommodation company, they refused to renew his contract. “I fear eviction at any moment,” Melo explains “[but] I have nowhere else to go.” His story has become common among the Portuguese capital’s 546,000 residents, who [...]