Pff, I'd like to say yes from the narrative and feelings people have in the city, but I haven't seen an empirical study. Amsterdam is quite strict about airbnb

Pff, I'd like to say yes from the narrative and feelings people have in the city, but I haven't seen an empirical study. Amsterdam is quite strict about airbnb too, entire apartments can only be rented out 30 days a year, but it's hard to regulate. Basically, you can get 150 a night, i.e. 4500 a month for apartments that normally rent for 1500. So there's quite an incentive to break the rules. Basically, if you have one 1500 home, you pay 18k a year, rent it out for three times that (54k), and basically live on a median salary at the cost of managing a single rental. It's pretty crazy. I'm quite okay with tourists, but I think they should put a big fat tax on them. The notion that there's 7 billion people who may find your city of 1 million people an interesting place to visit, puts the locals at a gigantic demand-disadvantage. It's virtually impossible to compete on free market economics. But if tourists are still paying 150 a night, but landlords are only getting 75 a night after-tax, then locals who can 'only' pay 50 a night can compete for space, you can keep tourist flows in check but keep it open to tourists too, keep your city open, let tourism sustain the local economy etc. That having been said, Amsterdam has a few unique problems. For one, it's got an old city centre, the image of which is part of its protected heritage. That's why it's general policy not to build high-up, which means you're limited in your population density and get very expensive housing. In general building upwards is also tricky because it's a city built on swampland. Secondly, the crisis hit pretty hard here and construction halted for a long time and is only now picking up, but with a lot less (labor) capacity than before the crisis which had to be shed off to survive. Then there's the fact there just isn't a lot of space left to build, the Netherlands doesn't really commit to urban sprawl which is great, but also limits the radius of the city. And if you can't go further and you can't build upwards, plus you're not building as fast as you should after a crisis, you've got some big issues.