AFP,PARIS:  Homesharing giant Airbnb announced Tuesday that it will automatically cap rentals in central Paris to 120 nights a year, bringing it in

line with the French capital’s legal limit.

But Airbnb was quickly criticised for not imposing the new restriction— which will begin in January—across the entire city.

The measure will be applied in four central Parisian districts “which have faced the pressure of tourism and trade, as well as a particularly strong housing shortage over several decades,” Airbnb said in a statement.

“It’s unbelievable,” Paris city hall official Ian Brossat

told AFP.

“This means that Airbnb will not enforce the law” in the city’s 16 other districts or arrondissements, he said.

Brossat accused the company of “making an announcement that violates the law as a gesture of good will,” calling for it to apply the rental limit in the whole of Paris.