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LisaM

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8. We need to regulate short term rentals.

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Fri Dec 27, 2024, 05:25 PM

Dec 2024

They are both cutting into the long term housing inventory and driving up rents.

But municipalities have little to no appetite to regulate them. People like staying in them, and I guess that outweighs all the harm they cause. I have begged people not to use them for years, to no avail.

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