A view of the Neos Kosmos and the Koukaki areas in Athens, beneath the Acropolis, which in 2016 was named Airbnb's fifth fastest growing neighbourhood globally with an 800-percent jump in home-sharing. - The Greek chamber of hotels commissioned a Grant Thornton study that found that over 76,000 properties in Greece are available on home-sharing platforms. The study argued that declining availability had pushed up rents in central Athens by 9.3 percent in a year, disproportionately affecting poorer sections such as pensioners and single-parent families. (Photo by LOUISA GOULIAMAKI / AFP)
ATHENS: For Dimitra Dionysopoulou, who lives in the shadow of the Acropolis, there is no mistaking the signs of the Airbnb takeover in her neighbourhood.
“Renovation noise, debris disposal bins on every street, and rolling luggage,” said the 50-year-old Athenian mother.
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