Portugal's Airbnb owners resist push to low-rent housing
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LISBON (Reuters) - As reservation calendars at Portugal's 90,000 holiday homes were wiped clean amid the coronavirus outbreak, councils in its biggest cities swooped in with offers to rent up to 2,000 properties to sublet as low-cost housing.But owners are reluctant to give up the business model which has done them so well in recent years."With this I create jobs for myself, my son, my cleaner," said Ana Cristina Batista Rafael, who managed five properties in Lisbon. "I started doing this after..