COVID Has Exposed Venice's Housing Crisis
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- The housing crisis has gotten so bad in Venice that middle-class families are occupying abandoned public housing, in a city built for tourists.
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0:24 You know the situation is dire when an Italian uses instant coffee
That's chicoria based coffee, which exists mostly in instant form. No one has fresh chickoree coffee anymore
Omg so true
Hmm, she doesn't even know how to handle that (don't put it INTO the water/whatever it is actually, yikes!), me thinks she's never done that before, i.e. sucker alert. ;)
People have been drinking it for so long. Btw all the stereotypes about Italy are mostly about the Centre and the South. The North has a very different culture, way more "continental".
lol true
I was in Venice end of 2018, it was filled with gazillion of tourists, the term "theme park" to refer Venice has some truth to it, sad to see the locals are left to fight on their own during these hard times.
It's not just Venice that it's happening to. If tickets etc were not so much people would go other places
Thank the ccp for the CCP virus that is spreading ," Made in china"
And still the locals charge more money for anything just because it's " Tourist area" ...they make money from the tourist even though with shitty service
Tourism makes up like 80% of Venice proper gdp, so yall stupid.
@@djzrobzombie2813 damn
How far Venice has fallen, from a great Venetian maritime empire, to a glorified Italian theme park. 😐
We don’t have colonies or occupied territories anymore... it’s either that or starve. With the pandemic we even lost the lottle money foreigners woukd bring here.
theme park sure, try to buy a flat there.
Unfortunately Venice's business from the 11th century to the 18th century was profitable and possible, now it isn't. Globalization and technological development made it impossible to happen now. Times have changed and the only thing that venice could be was a stunning city of the past and so a tourist attraction. Nothing is forever and so is Venice, that beautiful and functioning empire couldn't last forever.
@P M well, most part of the world discend from them, still the more advanced one
@P M Kidding? USA, Australia, Central and South America...they are all strongly linked to Europe and their cultural influence, and even in other parts of the world you can see that...we all communicate in English, not Japanese or Bengali...European civilizations still represent the most extended and influential models, not the only ones but others haven't yet got to that point
The Disneyland parallel is quiet powerful.
It really is!
Bruges has the same challenge: Its historic city center gets swarmed by hoardes of tourists almost non-stop. But unlike Venice, regular people can live in residential areas surrounding the old city. Venice is built on islands, so they have no space for adjacent residential areas.
*quite
@@kenster8270 Venice is on the mainland too. The problem are not cities per se but their historical cores.
quite
Devastating. This is happening all over the world. I hate that things aren’t getting better.
It's going to get worse.
They will get better. Every country is three missed meals away from pulling out the pitchforks
Every western country will be imploded and turned into a communist model.
@@LEO-xo9cz only because we're letting it
@@LEO-xo9cz ah yes we have these problems because of capitalism,but somehow in your mind the problem is socialism.
Being from the area I can only testify and say that what Nicolò says is completely accurate. The government cares more about keeping the city a tourist centre rather than keeping it populated. When I walk around I can’t but see that more and more houses seem abandoned and left to disrepair. Nowadays living on the island is more of a luxury than anything else. Bot alas, it’s not only housing but there are a myriad of other problems connected with an excessive tourism, which unfortunately has been contributing to its decline. Just a year ago a cruise ship smashed into the harbour and there have been cases of uncaring visitors who go around littering, vandalising and in general disrespecting the city and its history. The irony is that, unfortunately, the city lives of tourism and I’m afraid that this will never change.
However... mayors are not poor victims in this as the guy wanted to make it seem... they have plenty of responsibilities. Also blaming Rome it so typical 🙄 thanks lega for this shitty attitude to blame others
but the city can do both....tourists and citizens. the mayor of the city just has to allow people to buy/rent those abandoned properties, on the condition to actually live in them for at least 5 years if not longer.
@@sapphirecamui6447 The solution isn't that easy. The local and state government know that I've residents came back to the city they will have to make it more habitable adding services and solving the problem of the high tides, which they "tried" to solve with The MOSE project which is now complete after more than 20 years of development and billions disappearing. Also, we might take into account that tourism brings more money than residents and that there might be some conflicts of interest for the politicians.
@@JPrince-rl2bf Ok, i won't disagree with you because i don't know the whole picture.
I do think that tourism won't be the same as before the virus. But we'll have to wait and see.
The big tides though, sounds like something not many people would want to deal with, especially when they're not used to this aspect. Personally i wouldn't.
instead of balming the voernment what does the regional government do...INO PARTICULA LEGA
NORD??? SALVINI'S PARTY
THIS IS HAPPENING IN MANY COUNTRIES ...
All over the world right now,everywhere and it's so scary. I'm in Texas and I no so many people who are going thru this right now.bless them all.
@@brendalynjones4576 I’m in Texas too but it’s open for pretty much all business here so not exactly the same.
@@brendalynjones4576 It's the same here in New Jersey, rent keeps rising, the job market is very weak as well now and I know of people who have been leaving in droves. I can only speak from my experiences. 😥
@@adamk4733 it depends on where you are in texas tho. Rent keep rising and rising, so alot of people are getting effective here in texas, Texas is a big state so maybe not as bad as where you are at, but its definitely going on here. Especially since everyone and thier mama is moving down here cause the rent was low and houses weren't as expensive as other states were. Now they are real expensive now cause alot of people are moving here cause of job opportunities and now they jacking the rent up cause there is a high demand here, so alot of regular texans are suffering because of the rent is so dam expensive now. Especially in dallas were everyone is moving here.
@@brendalynjones4576 Just save up $$ and buy a property in 2022. If you’re established it’s not that hard plus you’d know the best areas to buy. You can put down as little as 5% if your a first time home buyer or haven’t bought in 5+ years. No excuses!
So people with children are literally on the street and the best thing the Mayor’s spokesperson could say was actually: “it’s someone elses’s fault”?! Wow. Disgraceful.
He should've said, "it's all Trump's fault." ;-)
Have you ever met an honest Italian?
@@user-zt4ry9hm9u idk what your comment was... but it’s not funny. Italians are wonderfully resourceful people, they are hardworking, tough and great at studying, which they have demonstrated to the world in multiple historical occasions.
@@user-zt4ry9hm9u you should think about who you think you are.
I hear you, and yet if you spend ANY time in Italy you know there’s truth to this. The country revels in a bureaucracy that is unimaginable anywhere, including in a time machine in communist era Russia. A simple act (getting a phone line, buying a train pass as a local) is mired in a lifetime of bureaucracy. Italy is like a country run by the DMV.
And bear in mind that, insofar as any effort to penetrate bureaucracy, Venice is tiny. 50,000 people (and falling), most of them over 65, trying to move the bureaucracy of Rome? That’s like a senior’s home in Duluth, Minnesota running the UN.
This is how things are all over America. People sleep in cars, tents, and on the ground while thousands of places are empty. Its all about profit. It always has been.
Its just the way it is now unfortunately. Crony capitalism at its best
So... You are going to give away your house to an homeless, right? Or you just talk bullshit as everyone else?
@@freedomordeath89 you don't understand the process and thats ok but I'm not your teacher.
@@freedomordeath89 I only have one home. Why would anyone own more than one house when there are so many people without a home? Housing is a human right
This is actually global
I live in Venice. The pandemic emptied the city from tourism, and seriously damaged the local economy. But It also showed another Venice, beyond the overpriced tourist traps and the plastic carnival masks. Now I can finally notice Venetians, chatting in bars or simply buying groceries from local shops. I see the university students, that always had been a consistent part of the local population. This town is not dead without tourists. The economy was hit hard from the lack of them, but we can create a better kind of tourism. If you can afford to move with your job, when it will be possible, I invite you to come over for a long stay. There are cheap options to do so (mostly on the mainland, but that's not too bad), and Venice deserves to be enjoyed over a long stay. The lagoon is an astoundingly rich environment for its nature, art, and people. You will find over 1500 years of history, literally at every corner. You will also find amazing food and wine (food in Venice is much more than the frozen food served in restaurants near Rialto bridge). Our present is to live in cities made expensive and unhabitable by short term rentals, but I hope that in the future they will become a place for those who want to live in them.
Where is the tax dollars received from hotels and tourism going? Not back into social programs it seems...
Unfortunatly, many hotel don't pay as much (or at all) as they should. There have been many scandals with foreing-owned hotels that did't pay a penny for years.
I presume a few rich people get that type of money and they are not all even Venitians... perhaps one good marketing campaign could promote the local businesses that invest part of their profits in the local communities... if there are any. I am sure there would be tons of tourists that preferred to be able to select their hotels and restaurants based on that...
A huge chunk of the revenue from tourism comes from Airbnb's and that is not really taxable. As long as Venice lives off of tourism alone and that cashflow relies on the gig economy, there's nothing left that goes to the State, or the city itself for that matter.
Prices are so low and taxes are so high many people don't trust giving their taxes to the government
In the pockets of ours corrupted politicians.
Ever met a wealthy person who said "no thanks I'm finished, this is more than enough wealth for one family"? Think you ever will?
yes, bill gates comes to mind. guy is so freaking wealthy he's donating bns I think; warren buffett is another giving away 99% of his wealth.
But I have met lazy people demanding others satisfy their needs just because in comparison they are poor for no good reason
typing “no good reason” makes it look like you don’t think deeply enough to provide an answer for an obviously complex issue
@@n.e.g.u.s oh yes of course it is complex and there's no human on earth who can explan why everyone is poor. A good reason to be poor is that u have a mental illness that prevent u from work it is out of your control, no good reason and I ve met such ppl is getting pregnant at 18 and then again at 20, w o a stable relationship or job and then begging ppl for money for ur children
@Kea Lucky he is a genius and u are an idiot compared to him... but don't worry we all kind of are; the thing about poor ppl and rich ppl is that iq and subsequently the value of ur work goes up with income
@000 i agree 100%, it’s so sad seeing how disillusioned americans are with government. a better future is possible but too many people are ignorant
Yeah... this is what happens when your country becomes tourism focused and theres no middle class its just working class retail and restaurant and then super rich families
Sounds very very familiar 🤔
This is what’s happening to LA
@@oooba3628 kinda explains nyc too
I lived in Venice for a short period and felt the struggle of the residents. Happy to know there is someone working for the city
They protested against tourists like a year ago.
And?
Oh the irony
It’s the same situation in Barcelona , more tourists than residents !
Hahahahaha
I just said that.
I’m a uni student in venice and renting prices most of the time are ridiculously high, especially from a student’s perspective. And a lot of the times the houses are pretty old and need a lot of repairs... and while it’s nice to finally not have thousands of tourists swarming around and always being in the way, it’s kind of surreal to see
Ca' Foscari?
Dude,have you seen Paris prices ? Venice is extremely cheap in comparison
I think the lady’s description of Venice in the end is pretty powerful. It’s always sad to see a city turn into something else while the residents pay the price. Just curious, how can we find balance between these two issues? Would banning people from converting their houses into Airbnb help? And should he government convert those abandoned houses into social housing or sort?
The biggest issue is that the city relies on tourism to make money, in turn increasing house pricing. It just goes round and round.
I visited Venice 3 times over the last 15 years... and every time it was more touristy and crowded (with tourists) than the last.
The last time I went in 2018, I felt nothing was authentic anymore. I realized I was also part of the problem, and have committed to never going back unless tourist quotas are imposed and the Italian government takes the city's issues seriously.
Alas, I can say the same for Florence or Rome. Italians need to start forming other industries than just pure tourism for income.
Well, Italy is already the second manufacturing country in Europe after Germany, what are you talking about?
@@lucaesposito6896 its also very productive on agriculture specially on the plains. It could be a VERY rich country if the capital moved away from Rome.
They do..there is a very famous Italian mafia..
I'm glad I saw these cities back in the '70s. Venice itself was quiet, beautiful, and affordable for teenagers backpacking through Europe. Of course there were tourists, but nothing like pre-COVID19. Over the years, I've seen countless news stories on the overwhelming masses of tourists, and the loss of locals. Sadly, if this doesn't change, Venice will end up as nothing more than a theme park. This story is so heartbreaking - people that have lost their means of income and thus their homes; yet at the same time there being so many abandoned homes that could be rehabbed and lived in.
Tourism makes up 13% of Italian GDP. While it's important it's far from the only source of income in Italy.
"Damn tourists"
Now I see why countries hate them driving up prices and the citizens suffer.
The problem is that, in some cities, they're the main source of income. It's a love hate relationship. I personally am glad the city I live in isn't a tourist hub. However, some cities have always relied on travelers.
But we all benefit from them .. so let’s not be hypocrites
@@margaretwilson8736 My city is a major tourist draw for the rest of the world. But it also has other industries--shipping, aerospace, movie, manufacture--that make the downturn less destructive on the over-all economy. It's just a bad idea to depend upon monocultures of any sort. Venezuela sunk when oil sunk.
The keywords are "income diversity" my friend. And the problem is on how the government handle tourism not blaming on tourists. In my city, tourist places have overpriced shops as you mention. But the citizen has lots of Local shops as well. Venice got it wrong from the start. But only now, when tourism around the world stop, it does appear.
Airbnb is a problem in every place not just venice
AirBnB is a savior like uber. It has terminated outrageous pricing and leveled the playing field for anyone that wants to get a fair price for a house. If you can't compete - you rightfully sink
@@user-fv1cd5nx3w Agreed
If hotels decided to put lower prices then i would go there but they normally have expenses so i prefer going to AIRBNB
@@user-fv1cd5nx3w Dumb dumb
This is why I like to watch Vice. They put out news that other media outlets are not doing. As an American, I have never heard about this until watching this video. It absolutely sucks what is happening in Venice! I’m definitely thinking twice about visiting if this is how residents are being treated. For me visiting a place is ALL about the locals, the everyday people who live their lives there. The everyday people are what make a place beautiful!
Unless we decide people deserve a safe place to live, we're doomed.
Doomed for the people who had the ladder pulled up on them
No we’re not. Those who know how and more importantly willing, to exploit the weak and disenfranchised will always thrive while the little guy suffers and will continue to suffer. It has always been that way. Look at the forgotten in Africa continue to suffer while the rest of the world throw them a bone once in a while and pat rhemselves on the back for being charitable and out of sight out of mind.
She decided she deserved to live in some one's home and not pay them for it. So looks like that's happening.
@@supercooled AFRICA’s biggest problem is overpopulation and no investments in education to build industrries’on its own.
@@YouYou-sm8tf how can they invest in their future when their present situation is so tenuous they don’t know if they’ll see next week or next month? It’s a luxury a lot of nations like tours and mine take for granted. It’s like a rich person with wealth accumulation say they don’t know how someone can live check to check. Not all situations are black and white mind you but there are mitigating measures and sadly a lot of people do not take the steps to do it.
"You will own nothing, and you will be happy"
It wasn’t Covid it’s the way the world handled it.
You’re quite right. COVID just accelerated something about which Venetians have been complaining for 20 or more years. They want a livable, practical city. I first went in the 1980s. The city was so different then. Schools, children playing, churches that people attended not just to see the gift shop but to do church-y stuff, arts, dance, theatre, opera, music, all dying now. Because tourists don’t send their kids to little league sports so let’s stop little league sports. And a community dies.
Where is the Mayor of Venice that only the Deputy Mayor was available to be interviewed? Why is Rome preventing the Venetians in resolving this problem? If the Deputy Mayor is pointing at Rome, I think they should follow up with Rome. Additionally, Covid did not "exposed" the Venice's housing Crisis; DW Documentary covered this problem back in 2018.
The mayor has been busy managing hands-on the "Mose" issues recently (the machine which stops the high tide).
Mose is owned by the central governament and they have ultimate authority. The mayor is working to get the legal power to lift the barrier without having to wait for Rome's consent (which is often too slow to respond and prevent the high tide)
I am currently squatting in a property which was abandoned in 2016....just costed €2100 and €300 yearly taxes and now its mine bcoz I paid the tax for 4 years continuously
I know of a similar story regarding a mountain in Japan. The previous owner was years behind on their taxes and the village it's located in was looking for someone to purchase it. A doctor came to the rescue; they paid the taxes and maintained the hiking trail that runs along its peak for 10+ years. It's since been sold to someone else, but the village is grateful for the doctor's kind contribution.
Where's that? Really interesting, please tell us more. Congrats.
Tell us more, I'm looking into buying.
Hi sir! I am a prospective student in ca foscari university of Venice. I have also gotten accepted but I need some assistance with other processes. Can you please reply so that I can get some clarity sir? Please 🙏🏼
This happens to many touristy small cities such as Barcelona and Amsterdam. They should ban the huge cruise ships coming in as generally they don’t even spend much money and just crowd the streets. Also they should encourage longer trips rather than weekend visits so people visit a wider range of monuments rather and everyone crowding out St. Marks Square.
Barcelona and amsterdam are really not small at all lol venice is isolated with no buffer zone and just 50 thousands inhabitants that’s why it’s such a massive issue there but the other two cities are big global cities with a way more diversified economy and actually millions of inhabitants in their metro areas. They are overcrowded too with tourists but it’s way different
Amsterdam Barcellona small cities lol
this could be said for Venice Los Angeles CA
The reason I never visited Disneyland is the same why I never want to visit Venice again. It's all fake.
The mass tourism is one thing. Another is the gap between the steep prices and the poor quality. The money is simply not reinvested.
It depends on how you live it. Venice is not Disneyland: it's a true city with people living there. The only problem is the mass tourism. So come, but when you do it, make sure to visit less "popular" but more characteristic places, like Campo Santa Margherita, Campo San Polo, Burano, la Giudecca. You will get a better and more unique experience.
History is a joke for you 😂?
History is a joke for you 😂?
At least Disney parks (and other similar tourist traps) "steal" a person's limited vacation time away so that they don't treat residential areas like theme parks. Theme parks and all-inclusive resorts generally help keep tourists from mistreating the residents of the place they're visiting. Issue is, when a whole city is enough of a draw by itself, it'll probably be more profitable for politicians, homeowners, and business owners to treat their city like a theme park rather than having to directly face the problems of locals.
Are we really comparing the great Venice to Disneyland?
My boyfriend visited Venice about 4-5 years ago and said it was nothing but a tourist trap and everything was ridiculously overpriced.
E il to ragazzo non ga capio un casso!
@@caterinamontolli8909 iu ga rason!
@@caterinamontolli8909 Ovviamente, non TUTTO è una trappola per turisti, ma è un fenomeno espanso ben oltre il classsico "Strada Nova-Ponte di Rialto-San Marco-Biennale"
There's more to venice than those 2-3 monuments. Ya gotta put the effort and go looking for stuff.
Germano, I completely agree. The most wonderful parts of Venice are away from the crowds. You literally only have to go 1-2 blocks over and it’s a different world. I think that tourism in Venice can be sustainable if they eliminated big one day cruise ships from coming in. It would be a less Disneylandish experience without those massive crowds coming in by the hordes. I think there can be a balance between tourism and maintaining the rich past and culture of Venice.
Sounds like Lisbon and NYC.
And Barcelona.
And Amsterdam
@@frisianprideworldwide and the enitre SRI LANKA hshhsh
I don’t speak Italian but when she said “ la fregatura” my Spanish kicked in and I felt that 😔 “ los gobiernos no mas quieren fregar y joder”
I've been to Venise and it already suite looks like a disneylandish theme park of what people from the USA can imagine Europe to look like. It's beyond pretty but it's hard to find life there and it feels like you're just walking in a decor
The same can be said in some places in the world. I live around New Orleans and tourism is something that surrounds everything. My dad lost his job because he used to work in the hotel industry and we're not the only ones.
As someone from a place that also relies on tourism (Lisbon) this rings a bell, and makes me sad.
I spent 2 days in venice in Nov 2017 and stayed in a seminary. Waking up at 5am to catch the train and seeing the sunrise as I walked across venice, it was one of the most beautiful things i've ever seen.
There wasn't that many tourists, only thing I regret missing is the basilica, it closed when i was waiting in line. I hope to go back there one day.
I spent my uni exchange period out in Lisbon and I loved your city and your country. I'm from Venice and the only city in the world I consider as beautiful as Venice is Lisbon. Até à próxima Lisboa 👋👋
I'm a real Venice unhabitant.
Still haven't seen the entire video, but I deeply understand the problem here, it all begin with the idea of Venice as a beautiful and untouchable city which lead to politics that fransformed the lagoon in a sort of museum.
No more big investments in residential or productive plans, no attention to the citizienship.
In 50 years (since 1970s) the interests of cruise companies, tourism-related activities, big international brands became more and more important to politics than the unhabitants.
Venice could still be a model for the 3rd millenium economy, focusing on museums and historical tourism-related programs, and in some way it is, but there are two more critic problems: living here is expensive (buying a house is almost impossible, and the rents are way too high beacuse of the greed of landlords and market prices) and there is no real specialized work for youngsters. You can be a waiter, a hotel-related worker or a courier/transportation employee, not really more.
Venice has some hope, that comes from the students of the many universities seats and culture-related activities, and from the people that loves her.
I hope I could clear some of the main issues of this ancient, special and stunning city.
I suggest to visit her in company of some locals to enjoy the real traditions and see some really unique places!
Hello everyone from Murano, northern lagoon's glass district 🌿🙏🏼
Adoro che becco i tuoi commenti sotto tutti i video di Venezia :D E concordo sempre, inutile dirlo.
I ♥️ Venice seeing too many tourist is killing it not for the tourist, but the locals who are living there. That's why I bought a mask came from Venice found it some random shop in LA. I adore Venice Carnival Masks are handmade not manufactures. Yeah the government of Venice don't care their inhabitants only profits, money and greed. Screw Airbnb there nothing greedy pigs who keep eating and eating non stop.
"The housing crisis here is unique in that it affects the middle class"... Yeah, not unique unfortunately.
In many countries rent declining, people not able to repay loan, real estate under pressure
I was traveling through Italy by car and decided to visit Venice. I stayed only for three hours because of what is being repeated in this video; the place feels like an amusement park.
You can’t go anywhere by car in Venice...
@George Floyd Gaming visit another city. Venice is overpriced for what it offers. Wien, Prague, Hamburg, etc.. are all better options.
People who visit for three hours like you did are the root of the problem smh
@@xxxxMonkeyGirlxxxx If art and architecture are of interest to you Venice offers hundreds of times more than any of the cities you mentioned
@George Floyd Gaming nope. Been there twice, never go in summer. It’s very hot, you’ve to take crowded boat rides to get where you want to go and if it rains a lot the city floods lol
shame on the officials in charge of this city. But this must be fixed from the ground up - the people must vote these crooked people out and vote those who care about the residents in.
Many times people have to choose between who is the least crooked. Often time lobyists and special interests ( those with money ) who control what government officials can and will do.
If there was a housing crisis, why are fancy buildings being built around the world to be vacant?
This is the sole meaning of a housing crisis. Empty luxury Appartements means a lot of speculation and overpriced living space that will loose it's value in a Bang
I couldn’t imagine being from Venice
You would love drinking
You would love drinking
It’s sad a lot of people died from Covid 19 but on the other hand with places having people stay home it gives this earth a little chance to heal in a way.
she is my generation - we are lost generation, we were hit with financial crisis first, then we just got something under our feet and now this c*ap...a lot of us will lose everything we did for the second time...
this is perfect ground for sth really bad to happen, I hope it won't...
You can't imagine how much I feel what you're saying. Greek, in my early thirties, work in tourism.
@@Robert89349 i got chills on my back when I read your comment...
I can only say that I feel your pain and heads up, we will get through this somehow...
@@naceks It is just that I never wanted to leave the country like thousands of young people, I wanted to stay, because someone has to stay. I've chosen to work in hospitality in order to welcome guests to Greece, I never felt like being a host for visitors in Berlin or Copenhagen... But I feel like I'm constantly punished for staying. It's been ten years.
Stay strong, we will make it. We always do.
Amazing video. I love Venice and hope it can be saved.
Airbnb has ruined the rental market. They should be illegal it’s destroyed so much
Airbnb has been a revelation. I want it everywhere, just not in my town (London). Always holiday in one
Airbnb allows for a fair and open market. If you can't compete in an open market, then you will sink. Change your skill set to fit the needs of an open market.
Airbnb has put a stop to us getting ripped off
@@user-wb1vm9ex4k exactly by bastard hotels
@@user-wb1vm9ex4k plus I've hired spectacular apartments with jacuzzis and sauna on a sea facing balcony off airbnb. Tell me which hotels offer this?
question is, what is venice without tourism? a beautiful yet empty city. just like many themeparks, once the spark has gone, they are abandoned.
bc they overfocuded on tourism and let their other industries die
We need to restart ths Tourism industry with restrictions. Something is better than nothing
0:25 through 0:27 the liquid in that cup literally rises off of whatever powder she put in there
that powder is instant coffee like nescafe
@@a.d.7042 oh okay make senses
fake news, thats one of them deep fakes brother
I have visited three times: ca 1990, 2007 and 2019. IIRC, the hotspots have always been packed, but it was and still is possible to go into random “uncharted” neighborhoods and be pretty much on your own.
Two things have changed though: the AirBnB BS (which this video isn’t blaming enough) and the absolutely breathtaking amount of Chinese tourists in large groups.
Exactly, If you go out of the two-three main spots you can't find a single soul. My city looks abandones and frozen in timelost years
I was in Venice for a week in 2013. It was beautiful and I was around some of the same places they showed in the video. Sad to see what's happening there.
Sad. I've been to Venice twice...once back in '04 and again in '18 and IMO, it's completely changed. Everything from the structures, weather, the people, even the vibe in the air...it was borderline depressing on my last visit compared to '04. Back then, the place seemed to be full of life and it was the Venice I had imagined and heard about. Not the case these days and it's a shame for such a place with it's history.
Rent was 1,700.00 bucks at month? That’s crazy
I wasn’t sure I heard that right - it’s absurd
Sadly, it's a normal price here. For many homes you have to pay a rent of over 2000 euros (about 2300 dollars) per months even!
Try Amsterdam😜
Sheesh that coffee looks real good rn
I’ve visited Venice a few times and had wonderful time there. I’m sad to see the current condition and wish them all the best in coming back after COVID. Thanks for sharing their situation and making people more aware about their struggles. 🙏
I am 19 and living near Venice. This year in September I decided to study history at Ca Foscari university. I found an apartment that I divided with two other girls. The rent was of €300 a month, it was old and with no hot water. At some point me and my roommate thought we had covid, so we informed the owner. He said that he wanted us out of the flat asap. Later he apologized but we were treated so badly that we decided to leave the apartment and keep doing online classes. We didn't get our bail money back, although we left the flat in "perfect condition" (it was already horrific). I had a terrible experience and so did my roommate. She's still studying, while I dropped out. I hope I'll start again next year, but not in Venice.
That is horrible 😔 hoping the best for you wherever you are. Don't ever stop fighting for your goals and I hope you get to finish your studies ❤️ Courage.
@@jpaola9659 Thank you so much❤
Hi I've applied for ca foscari, is it a good university? Is it worth it as a foreigner? What are the chances that i won't get accepted? I apologise for the number of question, I just have so many questions and no answers.
We've got a housing crisis all over Europe, they're gentrifying everywhere. Building only office buildings and luxury apartments
that's been in new york as well
Not really true. Countryside Europe has very cheap prices for housing
Housing crisis while most European countries are declining demographically, what a joke.
@@AsiaMinor12 Housing crisis is only accelerating demographic decline, as young people cannot afford homes or have homes so small that there is no extra room for family and thus don't have children. In fact, its been pinned down as one of the main reasons for the demographic decline of Europe, North America and East Asia
Government's zoning regulations make building affordable housing prohibitive.
Reminds me a lot of Hawaii.... :(
Too bad Hawaii is in America. If you thought Venice catered hard to tourists with money and corporations... well...
Was coming here to say the same thing. I lived there for a few years and this was what bothered me the most. Every penny on the island went back into tourism and waikiki while the locals were living in poverty and suffering. They would frequently shuffle the homeless out of the main drag to prevent tourists from seeing the reality of how people live there. While I was there there was even a local politician who would go around and trash homeless camps, smash their belongings and harrass them. No one blinked an eye.
@@dead_beatbunny Oh Tom Brower, then he got beat up by houseless, thinking he was immune to consequence along Ala Wai? LOL I'm Hawaiian, live between Nanakuli and Las Vegas. Both are day and night in essence of affordable living; alongside catering to tourism... EXCEPT LV has contingency industries (gaming/solar energy/gambling/marijuana [in which every taxed penny goes to public schools]). The islands lack the willingness to change, the willingness to help while at the same time using just purely "Being Hawaii" (hope that makes sense) as the reason to not change.
Hell, an 11 year old child introduced a bill pre covid to have epilepsy/seizure first aid training in schools to at least one person on staff (which is turn the patient on their left side, time the seizure, and wait for the patient to come back to consciousness, call an ambulance if the seizure lasts longer than 2-4 mins). Unanimously turned down. HOW?!
@@hxctalent I didn't hear they had beat him up. Serves him right.
@@dead_beatbunny He did it for weeks at unattended camps, then he tried it at attended camps. It didn't go well lol
The title is wrong. It should be: "High unemployment in Venice due to COVID". Basically everyone in this video is saying how they don't have a job, since Venice relies 100% on tourist and there is no tourist during COVID. This is not caused by no house/home , or the lack of them.
I remeber travelling here 3 years ago the ammount of abandoned houses then was crazy and noticeable even at such a young age
In california the smell of homeless camps as you enter exit and drive down the freeway has exposed the housing crisis for years
We don’t talk about that here.
They allocated 1.2 billion $ to solve the problem and an auditor found out that 60% of it went to feed bureaucracy, consultants and politics that wouldn’t make money if the problem didn’t exist.
With the rest of that they built military tents that no homeless wants to go to because they can’t do drugs there.
Thank the democrats for not enforcing illegal immigration
Supply and demand
Commiefornia for you. Know democrats will destroy the country.
@@lblanc8107 Got a link?
Those closed houses' purpose is to artificially rise house and rent prices. It's not the government doing this, but the real estate market
Low interest rates don't help. It's also gov't policies that make tourism-centered housing easier to get permits for. Hotels bring in more tax $$$.
Lol, they simply don't have the money to maintain those houses. This is his how socialism always works, everything goes to ruins.
Venice is larger than you think. Away from San Marco it's not so touristy.
“This city should be rethought for its residents.” More true words have never been spoken. I am a frequent visitor. Although I’d like to think I am “better” than the problematic tourist-I tend to stay for weeks or even a month at a time, visiting grocery stores, getting to know the local people and build relationships, but perhaps I delude myself), perhaps I am part of the problem. I have witnessed the decline of Venice over the past 20 years. Schools, medical services, gyms, all in decline (you can run on a treadmill in one of the larger hotels but try finding a local boxing gym-ha!). And don’t try raising kids there-while the city is ideal for families (small, no crime, no traffic), the fact is that schools, athletic teams, social clubs are all in great decline.
It’s all so sad. The city has dedicated itself to overnight tourists (land, buy your t-shirt, get the f out people who do not participate in the building of community). Instead, the city should be a model for the city of tomorrow-pedestrian friendly, safe, community-based, high density, no vehicles. It could be the envy of the world but instead has become a theme park for money.
“The World is in a crisis cause by humans” anonymous
Gee you think?
@@Kigoz4Life
He can't even spell his annoying spam correctly.
The sky is blue. You are even less smart by spamming than it's pointless "quote" itself.
By governments*
@@Bettie_Rage well, blame Satan then like always.
He's right and absolutely on the money. Goodluck and Godspeed to him and everyone doing what he's up to.
Corruption and inefficiency in Italy ? I am shocked
There has been a massive issue in Venice in regards to housing for years
Even the poor squatters in Italy look like models
...why are you so mean ???
And still can't hold down a man LOL
@@YouMockMe Maybe Age doesn't want a man or is divorced .You hate women...
@@YouMockMe I noticed that, she's thin and beautiful but still can't keep a man at 36 lol
@@FrenchSaladMac No one said she makes them wait hahahaha
Give a man a gun he can rob a bank
Give a man a bank he can rob the world🤔🤔🤔
The problem that majority of people in Venice are living from tourism. If no tourists, no job and no money to survive for the locals. The government should balance both locals and tourism. The taxes should be turn for invest in renovation.
Sounds familiar, over here in the US. 500,000 veterans sleeping on the streets every night while 500,000 rich people's vacation homes sit unused 363 days per year.
Somebody somewhere is benefiting from all of this.
CCP benefits
Government gets more power and money. The mayor said he'll be spending 23mln of taxpayer's money.
I have refused to use Air bnb because of what it does to housing markets.
Then you are making a fool of yourself, by overpaying for housing. Airbnb creates an open market, which determined the fair pricing of housing.
@@user-fv1cd5nx3w how dense are you????? Yes it creates an open market for TOURISTS. But is super awful for people that want to LIVE and WORK in the city. Rich people buy houses to use for airbnb so there is an housing crisis. How fair is it to let people sleep on the streets because they weren't able to pay for insane prices? People like you have got the wrong mindset and will continue to abuse certain things till it's destroyed for ever.
@@hebjdhdhdbbshshshshs9119 In Venice, local people without tourists would starve to death, and for them to be complaining about tourists being offered cheaper and better housing, is like sitting on a tree branch, and simultaneously sawing off the branch. If they can not make a living wage being a waiter that serves tourists, oh well - maybe go to the FREE universities in Europe and increase your qualification and get a real job. Sounds like losers complaining about their situation, while being too lazy to step into the social mobility elevator.
@@user-fv1cd5nx3w mate I'm strictly talking about AIRBNB and people buying the houses. Yes tourism must suck but like you said, they survive mostly off it. We are talking about there not being enough houses or it's to expensive not about too much or too little tourism
@@hebjdhdhdbbshshshshs9119 so you’re saying air bnb single-handedly caused this? I doubt it
I lived in Venice several times for a couple of months. I could say the best time to visit is in the second half of Jan. Absolutely perfect medieval atmosphere. In the summer time tourists ruining the image of the city. It becomes like a Disneyland, so sadly.
Living in Venice is extremely expensive! If I was her I would try to look for other apartments on the mainland, Venice is very well connected with transport so it’s easy to move around the whole province, I study there I have friends who lived there but also many of them decided to move to the mainland since the housing situation is so expensive that for a student it’s difficult to pay such rent.
I wish her luck!
That's nothing. Come and do same theme research in Ireland. And I promise you that you will be stunnned!
What do you mean exactly? Your comment got me curious.
Venice was an incredibly wealthy and powerful city 500-600 years ago. This is basically the fate of all powerful empires, where at the end they become an amusement park of their former selves.
Sometimes I wonder what Venice looked like during its heyday. Must have been decadent & gorgeous.
@@hayaglamazonluxe It was the richest city in the world one day. Something like Dubai in today's era
There's over a thousand abandoned buildings in Denver Colorado alone that are locked up because no one can pay the lease but yet homelessness skyrockets. this is not an isolated incident in Venice or anywhere in the world this is a worldwide crisis.
Venice is a city filled with problems, and the housing is one of the worst. I have to say that the housing is a widespread problem all over the historical centres of italian cities from North to South, in Venice is acerbated due to the fact that Venice itself it's its own historical centre. I've been studying in Venice's university since 2018, I love this city, and I wish that what Simone Venturini said was true. BUT I would like to point out that is very easy to point the finger and blame everything on Rome's central government (which don't get me wrong, the central government has its own faults, and isn't actually working in this era, a thing that covid-19 is showing to the italian mass, which -sadly- is politcally radicalyzing) when the "Venetian exodus" started back in the '60 when all the petro-chemical industry was flourishing in Marghera (which is literally on the mainland in front of Venice) and lots of workes moved to the mainland to be closer to their workplace, they of course remained on the mainland and in many cases inherited their parents old houses in Venice, which started to be rented to people. This set off a trend, that was further extremized by the new ways of providing a place for tourists like all the Airbnbs. So could we say that we have to blame venetians instead? No, because is the "Comune" (the local government) itself allowing flocks of tourists to get in the city. For example, there's the "No Grandi Navi" movement, which is a movement against the cruise ships, which are allowed by the "comune" to pass in front of "Piazza San Marco" and in the middle of the city. These cruise ships caused and still cause an enviromental catastrophe by shifting the currents in the whole Venetian Lagoon and by bringing invasive species from tropical seas, yet, these ships bring lots of money to the local government's coffers. Or "La Giudecca non è un albergo" movement, which saw the residents protesting against new local government regulations that would allow the conversion of buildings into hotels or bnbs in one of the still mostly inhabited place of the city.
I wish I could trust Simone here, but by the actions of the current mandate, which is the same people of the last mandate I can't.
You have to know that the whole "comune" has around 260k people, of these 260k people 51k are in Venice, about 20k on the other islands and the remaining on the mainland. I love how he talks about "The uniqueness of Venice"; no wonder why when in 2019 the residents of Venice demanded a Referendum to split off from the mainland to truly work around this uniqueness alongside the other islands of the lagoon they lost.
Please dear Americans, when you come to Venice, don't use Airbnb.
Good to know, thank you. We'll use other accommodations
@@joesphrobinette8878 The video alludes to it. Essentially, wealthy Italians are buying Venetian flats and houses, putting them on Airbnb and therefore raises the cost of rents to Venetians who are born & bred in the city. They are being squeezed out of their home city because of expensive Airbnbs. This has happened in London and Paris.
Solutions to this would be stay at a locally owned hotel so you help to enrich locals or stay at a general hotel because locals will be employed there. Airbnbs also take property that could be let to locals off the market.
@@joesphrobinette8878 I'm a student in Venice myself. It's getting harder to rent even just a small flat cuz airbnb is swallowing everything. plz boycott them. you will make Venetians a great favor.
BRUGNARO, prima di Roma, deve impegnarsi in quello che dice venturin
Sono tutti campagnoli di merda i cui interessi sono rivolti a Mestre e non a Venezia. Brugnaro ha detto settembre scorso che ci avrebbe tolto cestini per le immondizie ed operatori ecologici, visto che non lo volevamo. Però quando si tratta di referendum per separare i comuni, allora lui diventa Veneziano doc ed "amante della città". È un bel problema, e non so veramente come fare, visto che i Mestrini lo voteranno sempre e comunque.
Maybe it's my age but do you think you guys could please do your subtitles in a larger size?
Nice place to visit or retire but not live normally. I lived about 45 minutes away from Venice until 2019...it was 1100 euro per month for an apartment ....not cheap...a lot of Italians dont have that much money. Toll roads and high gas prices make it crazy expensive to drive there too
That's nothing avg person in my country (in Europe) earns around 200-300€ per month and yet gas/diesel price is almost the same 1€ per liter..While for example Austria where paychecks are like up to 2500-3000€ per month has fuel price around 0.5€
As I see it, landlords have two options. Lower rent prices, or advertise to wealthy Chines or Russians move to Venice.
The whole world has fallen into a two class system- rich and poor. We are ignoring it out of fear though. Some of you will know what I mean.
I am a student in Venice, but i've been living there only since 2020, so I've lived the "tourist filled Venice" just for little since now it's quite empty and looks like a regular italian city, but even before i noticed how different and beautiful the parts of the city not aimed for tourists are. Venice's beauty and way of living are truly magic and i wouldn't trade my experience for anything else. I wish Venice invested in promoting their status as city with an important university and a place for students. The city is peaceful now, but i see people struggling, how many shops here sell things that locals don't need? Tourism should come back eventually, but Venice surely needs some regulations and help the local citizens who keep leaving to move to mestre or marghera every year.
@vice do something on Pompeii
When gentrification is taken to an extreme level
Nothing like San Francisco
I remember calling it a Disneyland when I went to visit. There are very few Venetians in Venice because of tourism its very very sad...
OK the question is "if you were able to cut back on tourism (say 50%) what would you replace the lost revenue with?
You replace it with better tourists that stay for longer and actually enjoy spending time in the city. More often than not during pre covid times Venice used to be swarmed by thousands of cheap tourists coming in on huge ships, spending only a few hours and crossing the main activities and top sights off their checklist in a hurry. That’s the worst kind of tourism, all of the cons and few of the pros for a small city like Venice. A cap and an entry fee on the amount of tourists a bit like what Machu Picchu and Cinque Terre are already doing will oblige people to make a choice and only visit Venice if they are truly interested in it, not just to tick off another famous Italian square or bridge on their list.
I understand the need for tourism, but there has to be a healthy ratio of tourists versus local life. I had the chance to visit Venice around 2005, absolutely hated it, just for this exact reason, that it felt like it was a Disneyland type of attraction... Sure the architecture is amazing, but without locals living there, and with thousands of tourists, It just felt empty... Now the really small old towns scattered around Italy felt a lot more genuine.
Well this is the same everywhere ; paris , Barcelona , London , etc . A lot of people don’t like tourism but everybody benefits from it .. the woman her self in the video did ... so people are just a fucking bunch of hypocrites and that doesn’t give people the right to break into homes instead otherwise we can all do the same instead of working to but a house.
I didn’t see a single child in this video
Children can't go out during lockdown here
I thought this was for venice in LA lol
I bet you are from usa only a person from there would not know that Venice is in Italy.
@@siloemascolo2769 Ha! I bet you're Italian. You can't take a stupid joke. So you get nationalistic in your insults!
@@swicheroo1 i am actually American from Brazil. I know that now you are thinking Brazil is not in America lol. You see? This is a joke. Most people from usa are so ignorant that they not know what America is.
Venice is also in California
prior to Covid, how is it that there are many abandoned houses when the vacation rental market is so hot?
Its not only them...pray for peace
3 ads in one video Vice? Seriously?
Damn. Glad I got to see it in person in the early 2010s, my ex-wife & I rented an airbnb. It was like heaven there then. Not anymore.
it was like heaven for tourist
I hope the mother and her two children will not be evicted from their home. She has done a fine job keeping the place clean and tidy.
So true 😟