The city's housing chief Ian Brossat said last week he
would seek to outlaw home rentals in central Paris because services like Airbnb were forcing out residents.
"I know from surveys and polling that we are exceptionally popular in France at large and in Paris. Maybe not as popular as Mbappe, but we're really popular," Chris Lehane, Airbnb's head of policy, told AFP, referring to French striker and PSG star Kylian Mbappe.
"I've never been asked to be a political consultant to him (Brossat). But taking on an issue where 20 percent of the people support you and 80 percent of the people oppose you is not a winning political hand."
Brossat, who is expected to head up the French Communist party list for European Parliament elections next year, said he wanted to stop the City of Lights becoming an "open-air museum".
Paris is Airbnb's single biggest market with 60,000 apartments on offer but the service has, along with its competitors, faced accusations of pushing up rents and diluting communities.
Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2018-09-airbnb-paris-threat.html#jCp
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