December 15, 2016
For many travelers, home-sharing services like Airbnb and VRBO are a convenient alternative to regular hotels. Housing advocates, however, say that this convenience comes at a price for local residents. They argue that using apartments for short-term rentals reduces the availability of affordable housing in cities where these services operate. On Thursday morning, a group of local housing advocates and one D.C. legislator made this argument standing in front of a small building in Columbia Heights. Although the building’s two dozen units are rent-controlled, the advocates say they are being used for short-term Airbnb rentals instead of as homes for long-term renters in the fast-gentrifying and increasingly expensive neighborhood…
Source: http://wamu.org/story/16/12/15/housing-advocates-say-columbia-heights-building-used-airbnb-rentals-eats-away-affordable-housing/
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