It will be interesting to see how Amsterdam city council proceeds with its ridiculous plan to slap a limit on the number of apartments in the city that can be rented out for short stays.

MPs have criticised it, property developers are threatening legal action and as for the expats – they will just have to wait and see.
Amsterdam says it needs to get the expat market under control because locals are being priced out. And indeed they are. But you can’t blame the foreigners. They’ve got to live somewhere.
Amsterdam has an extremely skewed housing supply: some three-quarters of the city’s housing is rental, and 86% of that is rent- controlled. So there are a lot of people competing for the 14% of properties open to everyone who earns too much for social housing.
The way to solve the problem, say city officials, is to licence 1,350 flats for short stays. This, they claim, will make it easier for foreign workers to find somewhere to live – something which is ‘extremely important’ for the city’s ‘ambition to be one of Europe’s top five locations’.
Pity no-one else agrees with them.
The council says it has opted for a minimum rental period of one week to discourage tourists, because ‘homes are not hotels’. But of course this is completely unconnected to the fact that everyone renting an official a short-stay flat will have to pay tourist tax.