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Housing bill near, lawmaker says
Lawmakers aligned with both housing advocates and homebuilders are close to striking a deal with cities on a proposal designed to help address Arizona’s housing shortage.
Legislature ignores short-term rental bills
Efforts to regulate Arizona’s short-term rental marketplace appear to have failed this year with no Republican or Democratic bills on the issue getting a hearing in legislative committees.
Scottsdale officials defend hotel shelter program
A Republican on the House Appropriations Committee promised on Sept. 13 that next year’s state budget would include provisions preventing municipalities from enacting hotel shelter programs similar to ones established in California and New York using state funds.
Effort to regulate short-term rentals will resume
Stakeholders and lawmakers say that they will renew efforts in the next legislative session to increase municipalities’ ability to restrict short-term rentals to increase the amount of long-term rental properties and for-sale residential properties.
Parties at short-term rentals can be risky
Someone yelled, “Gun. Gun. GUN!!” My fellow Paradise Valley police officers hear me shout those words as I draw my sidearm. They pivot and catch the suspect with their flashlights. There’s a gun clearly visible in his waistband.
Communities, short-term rentals can co-exist
The debate around short-term rental (STR) properties in Arizona has become polarized – a zero sum game. If a local leader calls for regulation, industry advocates will falsely claim that sensible legislation will doom the industry.
Effort to regulate vacation rentals dies
State lawmakers quashed the last remaining measure to rein in short-term vacation rentals Thursday concluding that it did so little as to not be worth the effort.
Homeowners, not government, should decide on short-term rentals
The article “Time to crack down on short-term rentals abuses” suggests that the way to remedy the previous bad legislation by the Arizona legislature, preventing HOA’s from banning Short Term Rentals (STR’s), is to empower local governments to make their own rules and laws preventing the abuse of STR’s. Nothing could be further from the truth.
House panel advances bill to restrict short-term rentals
Rejecting claims the measure amounts to little more than window dressing, a House panel voted Tuesday to give local governments more power to regulate short-term vacation rentals. But just a bit.
Zero in on a few bad actors, not entire short-term rental industry
Watch out for the big lies being told about small businesses. I’m talking about opponents of vacation rentals. They’re happy to blame these properties for everything from crime to Covid to the rising price of housing. Don’t believe it.
Cities simply need to enforce good neighborhood policy
Paradise Valley Mayor Bien-Willner is wrong. Cities have all the authority they need to enforce good neighborhood policy.
Let’s forge sensible short-term rental solutions
A recent poll commissioned by Airbnb found 89% of Arizona voters support the state’s tourism industry and the economic benefits it generates. The positive sentiment extends to short-term rentals: six in 10 voters support allowing Arizonans to share their homes to supplement their income and spread tourism benefits to communities across the state. In the past year, as many Arizonans faced economi[...]
