Away from the old town, Bern's city parliament sees no need for further regulation of Airbnbs, according to its response to an interpellation criticising a planned short-term rental in Länggasse. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox In their motion, members of the left-wing Social Democratic Party claimed that the flats for short-term letting were being built in the middle of a housing shortage and in a prime location. Important living space would be lost as a result, they said. The local neighbourhood commission had unsuccessfully objected to the 16-apartment project on Seidenweg. The city parliament, on the other hand, only sees a need for action in the old town, it wrote. There, the proportion of advertised Airbnb offers in relation to the housing stock was significantly higher than in the rest of the city: according to an evaluation from last June, there were 26 active Airbnbs per 1,000 flats. The Mattenhof-Weissenbühl district was in second place with 7.4.
