I’ve been an Airbnb host for 4 years and I live in Barcelona. A super host too. I just wanted to vent a bit...sorry about it. You don't have to say anything. But I feel compelled to speak out about how Airbnb is not anymore what I, at least, thought it was. I've been an avid supporter of Airbnb’s campaigns, have attended Airbnb Open, I’ve inspire friends, family and guests to use and support Airbnb because of its “altruistic” vision on Sharing Economy, etc., etc. However, upon seeing firsthand how things were developing here in Spain, I started to express Airbnb my concerns on how it was operating here that was bothering so much the different local governments in the main tourist cities, like Barcelona. Airbnb, for years is been refusing to remove from its platform all illegal apartments as the Local government was requesting. I guess money weighs a lot. Other platforms agreed to it and the government stopped looking into them. Not Airbnb. Because its stubborn ways, now organized anti-tourism movements are affecting not only Barcelona but other Spanish cities as well. The local government knows about where and who are behind the legal licenses, so to put more pressure on tourist apartments, hosts like me—that have been paying like a clock the city tax, the revenue taxes and all legal obligations asked to touristic apartments, are receiving messages from the City Hall stating we have to pay fines (up to 30.000 euros) for the most pointless things. In my case, I have a fine because my license number is not coming out in the first line… it comes out in the fourth line on my apartment’s profile. I called Airbnb to perhaps give me some orientation, or to write a letter stating that I indeed have posted for years my lincense number. I've been writing messages to the Help center, I've been calling every day since I received the note about the fine... but NO answer whatsoever. Nothing!!!! Whole cities in Spain are now banning ALL touristic flats, legal and illegal. Airbnb has been for years resisting to lose the income from the thousands illegal apartments that get advertised in its platform. Today, years later, we , legal hosts, are paying the price of its bad (greedy) management. Today, Airbnb is still advertising illegal flats in Barcelona, I know of hosts with no license flats that never ever reported a tax in years and that requests the tourist tax to their guests and putting right then that money into their pockets. Those are the hosts Airbnb is been defending and protecting here in Barcelona, and certaily for its own econocimal interests. Now, the legal ones are the ones to be sacrificed. The government is putting pressure by putting large fines for silly stuff… and Airbnb is not doing ANYTHING about it. I do not believe anymore in their blah, blah, cooperative and fair society and save world empty speeches. Perhaps in their origins it was so. Today, Airbnb is today one more multinational company-- cold, calculating and greedy. A total disappointment. Aurbnb is not family nor community at all like, it proclaims!