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Amid housing crises vacation towns limit
short-term rentals
(AP) — In the Colorado ski town of Steam-
boat Springs, motels line the freeway, once
filled with tourists eager to pitch down the
“Señor ta mi wardador, mi’n tin falta di nada slopes or bathe in the local hot springs.
Den cunucu di yerba berde e ta ponemi
sosega. Now residents like Marc McDonald, who keep
E ta hibami na awa trankil, the town humming by working service-level
Pa mi bolbe haña forsa”. jobs, live in the converted motels. They cram into
Salmo: 23 rooms, some with small refrigerators and 6-foot-
wide kitchens, or even just microwave kitchen-
Nos ta anuncia fayecimento di: ettes. Others live in mobile homes.
Steamboat Springs is part of a wave of vacation
towns across the country facing a housing crisis “It’s basically like living in a stationary RV,” said
and grappling with how to regulate the industry the 42-year-old McDonald, who lives with his
they point to as a culprit: Short-term rentals such wife in a just over 500-square-foot converted
as those booked through Airbnb and Vrbo that motel room for $2,100-a-month, the cheapest
have squeezed small towns’ limited housing sup- place they could find.
ply and sent rents skyrocketing for full-time resi-
dents. McDonald, who works maintenance at a local
golf course and bartends at night, and his wife,
who’s in treatment for thyroid cancer and hepa-
titis E, said they will be priced out when rent and
utilities jump to about $2,800 in November.
“My fear is losing everything,” he said, “My wife
being sick, she can’t do that, she can’t live in a
tent right now.”
Maxima Ras Short-term rentals have become increasingly
*15-05-1940 - †17-08-2022 popular for second homeowners eager to offset
the cost of their vacation homes and turn a profit
while away. Even property investment companies
Acto di entiero lo wordo anuncia despues. have sunk hundreds of millions of dollars into
the industry, hoping to pull a larger yield from
tourists seeking their own kitchen, some privacy
and a break from cookie-cutter hotel rooms.
When the pandemic opened the floodgates for
remote work, Airbnb listings outside of major
metro areas rose by nearly 50% between the sec-
ond quarter of 2019 and 2022, the company said.
In six Rocky Mountains counties, including
Steamboat Springs’ Routt County, a wave of
wealth flooded towns, with nearly two-thirds of
2020 home sales going to newcomers, most mak-
Lientje, Marc en Emma Linker Mira con Dios a salba mi, ing over $150,000 working outside the counties,
Maken hierbij het overlijden bekend van mijn Tur mi confiansa ta den djE, according to a survey from the Colorado Asso-
lieve echtgenoot, onze lieve papa en onze lieve Mi n’ tin miedo: ciation of Ski Towns.
opa de hr. Jan Linker Señor Dios ta mi forsa, mi refugio.
E mes t’Esun cu a salba mi. Local governments — from Lincoln County on
Oregon’s coast to Ketchum in Idaho’s Smoky
Isaías 12:2 Mountains – are grappling with how to regulate
the $74 billion industry they say fuels their econ-
omies while exacerbating their housing crises.
In June, the Steamboat Springs City Council
passed a ban on new short-term rentals in most
of town and a ballot measure to tax the industry
at 9% to fund affordable housing.
“There is not a day goes by that I don’t hear from
someone ... that they have to move” because they
can’t afford rent, said Heather Sloop, a coun-
cil member who voted for the ordinance. “It’s
crushing our community.”
The proposed tax is strongly opposed by a coali-
tion that includes businesses and property own-
ers, the Steamboat Springs Community Pres-
*27-11-1947 - †20-08-2022 Sra. Catharina F. Giel-Figaroa ervation Alliance. Robin Craigen, coalition vice
Cariñosamente yama “Mena” president and co-founder of a property manage-
*13-02-1948 - †22-08-2022 ment company, worries the tax will blunt any
competitive edge Steamboat might have over
Afscheids ceremonie zal later bekend worden Acto di entiero lo wordo anuncia despues other Rockies resorts.
