The Santa Ana City Council has voted to ban short-term residential rentals within city limits. Effective immediately, the ordinance impacts residential rentals of less than 30 days.
Edinburgh council has said a drop in Airbnb listings in the Capital suggests its crackdown on short-term lets is working. Officials noted there were around 3,350 fewer whole properties being offered for short-term letting on the booking site at the end of last year compared to 2019. The local authority has introduced new licensing and planning rules in a bid to “manage the number and location of STLs across the city”. Planning convener James Dalgleish said the “end result” of these would...
Gov. Josh Green on Tuesday pledged to sign a bill into law that would give each county clear authority over vacation rentals — including the possibility of banning them — if it arrives on his desk, as expected.
A new study by the Institute of Cornish Studies is looking why all the new homes are not helping much
To the editor: I am writing to to express my dismay at the "ambitious" housing initiative unveiled by L.A. Mayor Karen Bass in her State of the City address. It boils down to begging for donations from the city's wealthy to purchase apartment buildings to house homeless people. In a city such as Los Angeles, with an incredibly low apartment vacancy rate, this only adds another source of demand that competes with a highly limited supply. If we do not increase the supply of apartments, middle- and...
Short-term fixes won't get us out of the housing crisis, Daniel Austin writes a letter to the government to explain what will.
Days after protest, township puts pause on zoning change to allow controversial project
Days after protest, township puts pause on zoning change to allow controversial project
HONOLULU (AP) — A single mother of two, Amy Chadwick spent years scrimping and saving to buy a house in the town of Lahaina on the Hawaiian island of Maui. But after a devastating fire leveled Lahaina in August and reduced Chadwick's home to white dust, the cheapest rental she could find for her family and dogs cost $10,000 a month. Chadwick, a fine-dining server, moved to Florida where she could stretch her homeowners insurance dollars. She’s worried Maui’s exorbitant rental prices, driven in...
An acute housing shortage hitting fire survivors on the Hawaiian island of Maui is squeezing out residents even as they try to overcome the loss of loved ones, their homes and their community
Dozens of people gathered in the Eagleville Elementary School parking lot Saturday, April 20, with purpose: to make known their objections to a proposed short-term housing facility at Eagleville Hospital.
Israel has started to meet commitments it made to Joe Biden on allowing aid into the north of Gaza, says White House national security spokespersonThe Gaza health ministry on Sunday reported at least 66 Palestinians had been killed in the past 24 hours.In central Gaza, Mohammed al-Hattab said he found his one-year-old baby in the rubble after an Israeli airstrike hit the Nuseirat refugee camp over the weekend. Continue reading