Romantic encounter of aging venice is one of the worlds most beautiful historical cities a dream vacation for millions of tourists every year. And justice and so on and i mean feels like youre in a time warp like youve traveled back in time and are experiencing a life in the past. So its fascinating and simply beautiful its exceeded all my expectations. People from all over the world come to venice to experience the trip of a lifetime and to create exhausting memories. As i enter the city i too am overwhelmed find so unique. I also for under the spell of its more than ten thousand year history. But i quickly notice the hordes of people tourists are everywhere all year round. And of course i notice that giant ships which dwarf the citys monuments every day up to nine cruise ships sail into the heart of venice. In addition cheap souvenir trinkets assault on every corner. What does all this do to the city and its inhabitants is it still possible to live a normal life here resistance is growing people are taking to the streets i hear them protesting. But for this report ive gone behind the scenes in venice i find decay catastrophic Housing Conditions in the center a city in decline. Shot up shops. All this has a road to the citys quality of life for its resident population. A disaster the because nobody want to. Give up our political initiatives citizens are paying in terms of damages to their city and to their health was caused by the big ships i want to fight for this. How could it come to this in this legendary city whats really going on whats driving the citys wholesale exploitation ive come to venice to find answers whos profiting. Whos paying the price what actually is being sold. For. Access to this jewel of a city is over water most visitors a day trippers from nearby holiday resorts. Booked my accommodation online like most net savvy people nowadays but rather than staying in a hotel ive opted for a private apartment its cheaper untalented is a more authentic way to experience for city because one comes into contact with local residents. Than thomas. Thomas and. So this is the. Case yes yes if. Its two hundred seventy euros a night for three of us half the price of three equivalent hotel rooms in the same location everything nice to you and their houses completely restored inside and outside their roof. Yes back only. About. Five star. No youve never. Really you just if you buy one house and you know it was so. Is this is the business is it easy to to to rent a place like this. Yes. Yes. But you make your living with renting things that you could with regular apartments that i go by this is the first. I want to try and make like everybody. Is looking to do this yes. Yes immediately. People talk about it theres so many tourists and theres too many tourists who think its like too many tourists but not only for the house and. Most of all our for the legal because its we have the. Islands became. And. Our last. Time and Everything Everything came so. If you become equal to. Not. Now. For many venetians fortunate enough to own Property Private rentals are a lucrative source of additional income demand from tourists is high and business is booming. But how does that impact venetians who are not homeowners and have to rent their apartments. To find out i meet up with mattel seche and his family he works as a night porter like his daughter carla he was born in venice the familys lease is about to expire and theyre facing eviction they need to find a new apartment in their hometown. Because their offers. A long time ago yes now. Is not a very usual. Or. By the newspapers. A disaster because. The owners of the power play fair game for their part when. Weekly. They can earn. Much more of them. The following day my tire takes me to have a look at his apartment located in a typical residential area in the old town. He pays nine hundred euros for just fifty square meters. We have a contract we call of order and two for your four years and then we read another four years or so i am in my seventy years or in the next here i dont know if the owner want to me in the parking again they can kick you out that easy but if the if the kong if the contract is over can do it he cannot tell me i dont want you anymore because i want to rent the apartment to somebody else or two that you used and. Leave me. And this is my bedroom and with the bottom up my gold thirty is a hay he has also or she needs something. We needs her room of course when she was younger no problems with the parents what the now. She needs her space but thats thats a common thing like you you you have just one room for parents and kids a shop we dont have other shuttles. To add to the strain metabolite many in the Tourism Industry risks losing his job at the end of the season i want to know how things turn out for him and we agreed to meet up again. To the tourists enjoying the sights of the lagoon city see no signs of a fight for a living space taking place behind the scenes. Shattered windows im told are usually an indication that the space is no longer lived in my local these are tourist apartments only there are no tourists staying right now but even a short term vacancy is worthwhile because tourists pay much more than long term tenants today there are more privately operated tourist lodgings than hotels thats good for tourists but can a city function normally under such conditions i meet with giuseppe to tara a professor of economics in venice he has started the flow of tourism revenue into the city and confirms that living in venice is becoming increasingly difficult for its residents. Oh yes they go there you know they displaced of course the residence of accommodation. And these very profitable to rented to use for the house. Is. For we know. That the buy a house of invents the meaning beneath as an investment. So they just for renting to us and this is when they can get an income which is around three percent but yeah which for. And you measure because you were here by i was relieving your camaro to be preferred. He also tells me that much of the income on private accommodation is on declared revenue that soley needed in debt ridden city coffers. While youre just asked to. Give you need why is that so many times they say oh we dont need this so i can give you would be to discount. It just to make sure im more than. Fifty percent or thirty percent about the year in venice. Or ninety percent i could buy a local fish. Is this the citys fault would i act the same way. The fear i had to face. In the world yeah you know people will look at you. And i think these things through you. So. If you know that i have i think its your loss. Evidently theres a lack of regulation for this market i make a note to raise the issue during my appointment to the city council in two days time as i stroll through the city theres a highlight at every turn and naturally Public Transportation is via boats rather than buses. If only the evaporators werent so full in venice it feels like there are often two sides of the same coin the citys beauty and singular appeal have always come at a cost we are on an island in a look good everything has to be transported by boat there are no cars transportation whether for people or goods is complicated but life has never been simple here. Sylvia garland is of an asian whos had enough shes fond of her apartment but she can no longer batter citys mounting problems. Here so this is where i live this is this is my living room its nice theres a small terraced out there facing south so you get sunshine all day long. So this is my this is my kitchen but im moving now so i have to pack everything up this ones already empty most of the carpets are empty its a shame but i have to leave more civic why do you have to go if you want to leave. If everything is more expensive here vegetables meat everything. Because its more expensive to get goods delivered here they have to be brought by car or truck and then by boat and that drives the costs higher and of course its the consumer who foots the bill costs. Here wants to show me around have venice a city she once lumped increasingly foreigners are buying apartments here many elderly people still live in social housing but that too is changing. And this is a huge hotel owned by the carnival corporation. So they were stored this side first and then this side here. But the funny thing is this side here was a post office and you can still see where the door was not deflected never detour when this is now its all part of the hotel. And the people who live here youve already seen today there are a lot of old people who live around here they have to walk a longer distance to pick up their pension. From a post office. Yes its paid by the Postal Service and residents cant make ends meet so they move away. We continue our stroll around her quarter. Like every other venetian i meet she tells me the infrastructure is crumbling theres less municipal regulation fewer doctors fewer small shops and instead more Souvenir Stores and private accommodation. That buys that stuff i have a feeling he knows what was in there before the neighbor grocery maybe a bakery a butchers it. And you know what i once saw here the door was open and i could see inside theres a bed in there and a table in a bathroom window and by then its rented out to tourists. As a bit odd that this could lead to that means there are people who sleep in there. And this is the aisle that i find that very objectionable. This is it must be unpleasant for them when im going there with a lot of the business to see me and i dont know when they book a room or an apartment and i will know that theyll be sleeping here in the window display and yes look like tree apartment with a view. To the bridge. Sylvia has decided to move to the mainland well check back to see how she factors. I researched the Business Model of private Short Term Rentals b. And b. Is the leading provider. This graph shows exponential growth i want to know what impact back growth has on the local housing market. I find seven thousand private hosts almost three times the number of hotels most of the hosts have more than one property. I find one that has twenty seven listings another even has ninety thats not private home sharing its an unlicensed commercial enterprise. I contact air b. N. B. Spokesperson to find out why commercial listings on the internet platform not regulated like they are in berlin. What was happening to give this kind of advice is its the courses the. Rules we are there to support them every cd every country needs a unique approach and so we dont believe that one size fits all solution are there to be based from from a source there are regulation regional c. D. N. National level theres stronger regulations in other places i think different regulations. What hes saying is city council could intervene if it wanted to. Over at its offices on the canonical under their familiar with the problem. Is the citys head of tourism. I dont. Want to. Be in the provides accommodation for tourists and thats dealt with differently under italian law from private rentals so it all. But at our last meeting with the ministry we decided that we here in venice must join forces with the other four major Tourism Centers namely florence rome milan and. We have to sit down with air b. N. B. And negotiate. Naturally we cant ban these types of rentals but we need to combat the phenomenon for instance by ensuring that renting to tourists isnt as lucrative as running to locals or students. Shes unable to tell me how if a city plans to achieve that. Meanwhile night porter mateo seche his wife and eight year old daughter still apartment hunting he worries he may be out of a job by the end of the season he cant afford to buy a property but he still looks at whats on offer. From the plane to. The boat the enormous. Cultural. Good photo for two of the thousand you would of the maybe would the end of the day the ali find to see fiftys sixtys class maybe not by fame week its impossible but if youve been twenty years theyve been your daughters grown up if you think its impossible for her to if you. Dont know. For i dont think so close to a week here wed be much more. But maternal refuses to give up. Well catch up with him again later. Sylvia gana is on her way to her new apartment its a fifteen minute bus ride from historic venice to my ghetto on the mainland. Thats what we do miss. Friends but i really dont want to live in the city anymore. On average two phoenicians abandon their hometown every day here on the mainland rents are just a quarter of prices in venice and the quality of life is better. Theres more room for example for a spacious kitchen. Full on things it does seem the hit looks ugly from down below this is nice that we have this huge terrace. This least it often smells of curry out here but thats good to you so. You have a view of fairness. Mattels sakhi has yet to find a new apartment a couple of years ago he founded a Citizens Action Group that voices protest against commercialization and mass tourism called the nescio dot com. This is their you know. They said it was. The wall the very nice is not a city anymore but there is a park like a. While here earlier then the venue so we made the funeral of the news so very nice instead because theres no more money show no more. Farm. Beatons is only if it is a park how only fight that he started a campaign year. One to show two ritualised certain. Respect then used this is our banner to stop but the people in the street dont the city because we feel new and a new go to youtube and so all the people can watch our matches more. Easily. Venices city council has started a Campaign Similar to met ours its banned eating on public squares bathing in the canals and feeding the pigeons all offenses that carry fines of up to five hundred euros when teo helps distribute the posters. But all over town the rules are ignored some visitors notice the tourist nuisance as it is and for you here tourist bellowing in the narrow streets at night so that you can even sleep hes laughing as if i were venetian i dont know what i would do if i constantly had to put up with such inconsiderate behavior from tourists at night. When you face shown on the salmon used to make sex. In this. Famous spots then yes we had the. Couples making sex the bija. And their sound taxi drivers. Made a movie. I. I i. I was. I was not ready for. It he had nobody. We continue on to us and mock square where the number of visitors every day exceeds venices resident population its the citys largest and best known attraction. There is now the locals all seem to know one another catarina seen as a qualified tour guide shes annoyed about the devious behavior of other guides. In the. These moments are you can see two groups just the behind and our eyes are really big but they can also have five fifty people but they are not really free because that idea and up to two were they asked no wonder guides are now so cool white guy like you know how to not to license standing up not burn me and they obliged to leave the t. V. To her so its only by cash so its not absolutely illegal and they dont declare war they gave it to day she also tells me there are a free tour Service Providers who charge talk for procuring customers to talk id then has to get the money back from the customer its a widespread problem. We are about two hundred thirty feet off the front guy in the city for its a wonder you have had to consider at least seven in the go go its millions of euros but you know if we can see that all the tourists sell. Millions of euros in damages for the official guides and for the city. Sylvia carla introduces me to another group of people trying to tackle the citys problems as part of a Citizens Action Group. Advises phoenicians on how to find housing outside the legal market. The people are not just the poor people we also can see the middle class as we can see the class nowadays but we can see also me the last people that they ran for seventy and it doing a hundred years and they cant its they anymore so they did their from the from the first private told us of the houses of the other Branches Group for nations to find an occupied living space if they can no longer afford to rent. This is one of the abandoned houses that we have here in the neighborhood of. Because if the neighborhood is abandoned i think more than ten years. You are dollar to me that you can open is it illegal. Ok so. You can see inside there is the situation and we tease the houses that are completely abandoned and also use some part of the walls so a lot of our record structure restoring of course this apartment was once subsidized Public Housing it belongs to the city and so alternately to tax passed. These kind of places because. Their neighbors say. There was that their hand the. One they had their partner in they block because its of course. People that live inside the ows is keeping all the book in Good Condition of course because if you have empty apartment like these you have a lot of called in the winter the side water it is the walls and she tells me that the city is no longer interested in finding new tenants for such apartments. The only thing they do one year one then. Broke all the staff to make they are legal so maybe you can see the scene already other supplies of the of the bathroom or of the keaton so you cannot have any more of the easy way to live inside. A tourist demand for accommodation in venice has led to skyrocketing rents an average wage earner can no longer afford market prices Single Parents and young families are hardest hit. And there but many do i dont know what about on calais may they try all the way to like the legal way of course because a corporation is not the legal way but they try all the legal way of the situation in a way to support for the rand Something Like these the last choice for the people is still called by of course because its not a choice for a family to say ok i want to. Buy. These because they say they dont have money. Yet. They have money just the way. That. They do not. Really need them for that. If the rental housing supply has dried up why isnt the city offering help. Improve their kid. Is eight hundred Million Euros in debt for a city that much in the rhyd its extremely important not to spend even more money on subsidies. Only. To. I think austerity helps just not the people in the night i want to gauge the extent of the problem and how much the city is to blame the whole venice you have a lot of empty apartments that pavlik apartments hundreds so they prefer to close their band and they just. Put some gate in front of their doors because its cheaper than to give. To a family because they have to fix it many locals do the repairs themselves out of their own pockets and move in as illegal squatters. Takes me to patris years apartment she is a must whos lived here for four years she did all the renovations. How was this. Really. Goes on there will be. Something that you afraid of that theres people. Friend know or they try every six months or most. To come over. Here to you know. I dont want to get off so that you six months from. Its funny because we with a lot of people downstairs when the aunt and car we stop and we have a table also we. Moms we met chief of the ad we were chief of the region. For them its not easy to pick up one of us. In this thing yeah imagine larry you know we have in venice we have like six days in all venice not just the island. And many like six people are kicked out of their apartments every day. But of course its not with the Police Action sound someone of course chose to go away before because its also a dignity problem you know for the families to go away would policeman or Something Else so basically were talking about thousands of people there probably yes there is thousand people that have housing problem. And as i discover its not the only serious threat to the people of venice. A menace that no City Resident can escape glides into the lagoon adorn the locals call them the monsters cruise ships more than five hundred hulking big ships call every year they bring masses of people and above all problems. To man so catchy are you spearheads public opposition to the cruise liners. When the boat boss and this water. Moves from the bulls its like tsunami you get sent to fix the finishing of the tsunami is a mass of water that moves finds shallow and the waves come up so this big mass of water once that have been pushed against the walls of our city is going back and so this movement that sucks the water. Sucks what keeps the stones of venice together from inside. If you want to take back to germany. A stone of venice you can. I dont know probably this one. One greater problem still the toxic fumes spewed by the three hundred meter long behemoths a team of International Observers measures pollution levels nabu is a German Environmental Group that monitors the negative impact of emissions in cruise and Ferry Terminal surround the world. Two of its experts are here today this is one this is a value that would be typical in downtown berlin with five thousand or five thousand five hundred is the reading youd normally take in a city center with heavy traffic. But here were in an open space with no ships around it means theres a high concentration of pollutants from ship emissions and through industry for and so by this festive and as soon as it docks the engine responsible for propulsion is shut down but thats why the moment the second engine is kept running all day long to supply power good notes back there were all the true ships are berthed sized each one is tantamount to a small power station. You just answer to call it such events and these power stations run unfiltered all day long. And the wind blows their emissions directly into the city. Starting nine now if it isnt we know that particular matter from ship emissions is linked to respiratory as well as cardiovascular disease if i exposure to find particulate matter is also associated with dementia and even obesity so. Theres a big health risk for People Living in such heavily polluted areas. To politicians the stability of the citys foundations and Public Health secondary concerns what counts is business the cruise industry generates four to five thousand jobs some people say they bring lots of money to this this is. If you take a Balance Sheet of a Cruise Company you see that half of their profit is made by the ticket and half of the profit is made by inside shopping its a system its like if you bring a big mall in a small town and you say no we will bring the money into the local to the small shops no you killing this small shops because its a system to keep all the money inside the ship. The ships leave nothing behind for the city and its residents except pollution you can be detected even here at the rio and her bridge in the heart of this car free city the experts measure increased sulfur dioxide levels emitted by ships more than the ports one and a half kilometers away. Yes no two but of course this is hazardous for the environment and the monuments that are so crucial to venice and the emissions contain sulfur and nitrogen oxides which corrode limestone because of the water causes more roshon and damage which needs to be repaired or the structures will collapse. Across fanous pollution levels are as high as in any major city during rush hour only here no one can tell. You you know. What this announcement all of us we know exactly how to fix the problem and that is to switch from heavy fuel oil to cleaner fuels and to install exhaust Technology Wind up particulate filters and nitrogen catalysts. Can always hide your zero six emission standards for cars trucks and buses for years its the norm for lead vehicles but the same rules dont apply to sea vessels and thats simply unacceptable and have obviously took measurements on ships that have filters pollution levels drop by ninety nine point nine nine percent the reading in the exhaust was lower than in the ambient air the Technology Works so why is it not used to it because it costs money they dont want to spend theyd rather kill people. And accusation directed at venice Ports Private operator where my request for an interview has declined. To ma so catchy adi has been waiting years for answers but over the course of time here is a quite a deep knowledge of the points Business Model. That were talking about sixty seventy eighty even one hundred thousand euros for every stop. Out of going through a private company its called rethink the banks that mean out by sanjay that is now owned by the same. Companies and the from. Turkish finance a company thats going to be. This is a very it. That a Public Company makes a private company that sold by strangers in this case stranger Companies Foreign companies that theyre getting all their money. Donations regularly rally against the cruise ships activists say its the only way to make their voices heard today no ground they navi no doubt ships is staging a protest headed by to moscow theyre being joined by activists from more than thirty other groups that the going can get rough. Sometimes police beat us or sometimes the. Game we have trials of but we dont care we go we go on because we are on the right side and we are winning. Chiara berati from the Grassroots Group of squatters his own surge here and that. Means that the issues of tourism our fact that the housing problem and also environmental problems and demand needed to meet their side to spend to increase their worries mentioned please the infrastructure is money that they dont put in the out in the housing problem the housing issue and anything showing up not only that. The citys residents want to drive home the message that venice is the city with their boats they are staking their claim to the citys waterway sylviana has also come along. Each one is in my head out of the time ive moved to my guera and theres a project under consideration to allow the biggest cruise ships to dock there stand by its not ship that market so ill be fighting on both fronts. Done mostly shop one in venice and one in my garret my workload has doubled. And i entirely in need. I know that i was hoping to simplify my life by moving. But its not working out that way i just get. The demonstrators have thirty boats which they position to block the cruise ships pop into the city these types of protests have broad support among the locals we had a referendum it was a self managed self to play with friends legal value the eighteen thousand people chose to buy against the ships and show that its simple for us so you say the majority of towns do not want them to go to the protest has been underway for more than five hours. Then i hear the demonstrators have scored an initial victory. Day thats because of the day that the big ship thats just more on the phone. Is refusing to leave it to me by day like its supposed to do has decided to leave by night time and sell your house when the case their passengers that if they want they are free to collect their luggage and leave the ship and theyll get a refund on that very explicit ticket so small people begin part time work. For small triumph that keeps demonstrators motivated to continue their protest into the night. They use their boats to block the canal and stalk the giant pleasure boats even though the passengers themselves cant solve the venetians problems. At some point desperation and helplessness turn to anger police boats appear and climbs on the porch in an attempt to shield the ships passengers from the sight of the demonstration. Later in the night a cruise ship steams through after all the protesters are loud and clear. I. Four kilometers away mateo seche is celebrating at his local bar today he received word that he can stay on at his job through the winter season but he still hasnt found a new apartment for his family. You know their life is a source trains or you can you can find nothing the thought of three miles there and then then in two days or you find everything so its important. To keep the book in the ask ask ask for it. The residents of venice feel like a tight knit family social life takes place in public. Cant imagine abandoning his hometown to go to live in them in another part of the sea to just listen couse if you live in venice you need for the wall thirty the wall king the both you go in the mail in the cuffs its like in the end. Of your United States and go to live in la. For sixteen hundred years phoenicians have been defending their city against the water and from literally going on the residents say they wont give up the fight down the Italian Government has banned cruise ships from the Historic City Center from twenty nine teams. Diverting them to maghera is a half hearted solution and one that has nothing to address overcrowding pollution or to protect the look at. Entering the conflicts fronting the powerful. Fear new security conference here in munich isnt just about the big. Means a woman faces its also about the special advisor is my guest this week is penrose a former National Security advisor to president obama after two years of tough calls while fuz obamas Legacy Holding up conflicts so for. A minute. We make up of what we watch as oh i feel that under such a time we are the Civil Service to. The want to shape the continents future to. Be part of and join african youngsters especially share their stories their dreams and their challenges. The seventy seven percent of the platform africa charedi. Donald trump and kim jong un round number two here in hanoi vietnam will the jew be able to hammer out a deal that is more substantial than the singapore agreements tentative steps towards denuclearization in return for an easing of economic sanctions is joining us well walk you through the events as they unfold here sunday w. News. This is g w news live from berlin u. S. 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