The authority criticized the new Airbnb law in Rovaniemi: \”Based on neighbor monitoring\”

The authority of the City of Rovaniemi has issued a critical statement on the draft government to amend the construction law. The ministry reports that the municipal statements will be groaned.

The Building Supervisory Authority of the City of Rovaniemi suspects that the monitoring of new short rental regulations would be based on reports and neighboring monitoring.

The government is drafting a proposal to change the construction law and one part would be the regulation of short rental.

Now the draft is in the consultation. One of the statements is the Rovaniemi City Environmental Board, which criticizes several points in the draft law.

In the new law, a short rental person should keep a record of how often he or she has a short rent. On request, accounting should be submitted to the building control authority upon request.

The draft states that \”in some situations\” the building control authority could have to assess the reliability of accounting, for example, compared to the neighbors.

The authority of the City of Rovaniemi is not enthusiastic about this because the authority does not know who is engaged in the activities.

– Supervision would be based on reports and neighboring surveillance, and this cannot be the starting point for supervision, the Environmental Board says.

According to the panel, tools would be needed for monitoring.

\”This is the same as the taxation that you need to keep receipts and you have to provide additional clarification,\” says Meritähti-Lustig.

Meritähti-Lustig says that the ministry is accurately affected by the feedback that comes from cities, for example.

In Rovaniemi, short rental is a polarizing topic. It directly benefits some of the city dwellers, but it has also caused harm.

The city has even given threatening payment due to accommodation, and shared rules of the game have been expected for short rental.

The government wants to enable short rental

According to the opinion of the City Environmental Board, the proposal is generally generalized to live.

According to a panel for building supervisors, short -term renting of investment homes is not a living, as the activities are very closely resembled by accommodation.

– It is artificial to talk about living if the transfer of an apartment is clearly related to tourism, there are only a few days to visit and visitors change several times within a short time, the statement states.

Legislative Counselor Liisa Meritähti-Lustig states that the preparatory work has started from the policy of the government program to enable short rental even in investment homes.

\”In some areas, it may be necessary to use housing for accommodation if there are, for example, summer season or festivals,\” says Meriha Star-Lustig.

The government outlines that short renting of an investment home or so -called second home would also be considered to be a residence up to 90 days per calendar year.

In its building order, the municipality could determine the limit for a maximum of 180 days during the calendar year.

The Rovaniemi City Environmental Board estimates that when the border is 90 days, not to mention 180 days, the investment home may be in fact year -round accommodation.

-In Rovaniemi, for example, homes would probably be used for accommodation for December and February and empty of the rest of the year. It is more economically profitable to rent an apartment at daily prices to tourists than for a monthly rent for permanent housing, the statement states.

The Rovaniemi City Government is expected to decide on the issue of another broader opinion of the city on April 7.