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Are the 1st second residences in places where people live (have jobs, etc)?
Because in most countries, is rather the 2nd, 3rd, etc second residences, which are a problem.
Yes, but people who live there have been priced out of the area as they can't afford to rent or buy anymore. People whose families have lived there for generations. It's actually causing a staffing crisis in some areas too, as some shops/cafes in the area I used to live couldn't open as they couldn't find anyone to work there. Everyone has had to move away to find a home and all the people came down to their holiday homes and complained that none of the shops were open. Serves them right.
Turning a place were people live into some kind of theme park for Tourists destroys it as a place to live in and to conduct any business other than Tourism.
You see it in places like Barcelona, Amsterdam and Lisbon, some of which have already started to crack down on it.
I think in my country the residential houses have different legistlation than vacation homes, like little cottages by the lake. Though the vacation home is required to not be suitable for year-around living, if you have a modern house by the lake it's treated like a residential house.
In Scotland we have a thing on some homes - like trailers park sort of things - that requires them not to be used for living for at least one month out of the year. They're cheap to buy (like ยฃ30k for a beachside home with a deck and shared facilities) but you're not technically allowed to live there permanently.
Same here, vacation homes are not really usable as a full timelive in places in my country. They are relatively cheap as they're in bears ass usually and often even lack a wc.