Bullock Texas State History Museum
Pair Them Up
RECEIVED Sun., June 12, 2022
Dear Editor,
In his Public Notice column of June 10, [“The Housing Game,” June 9] Nick advocates banning Type 2 and 3 short-term rentals, and asks why the Type 3 STRs in multi-family (apartments) are even allowed?
The answer to the question probably has something to do with high demand from corporate renters and high efficiency (easy price negotiations, renewal, low maintenance) for the property managers.
That's a tough thing to ban. Instead of banning the Type 3 STRs, it would be better to "pair them up" with subsidized "affordable" apartments reserved for and rented to the sub-30% MFI residents who are so hard to house for all the opposite reasons that the STR's are so easy to lease out.
Whether the appropriate ratio should be 1/1 or some other number, I don't know.
BTW, the Public Notice is a real good column. Thanks for maintaining it.
In his Public Notice column of June 10, [“The Housing Game,” June 9] Nick advocates banning Type 2 and 3 short-term rentals, and asks why the Type 3 STRs in multi-family (apartments) are even allowed?
The answer to the question probably has something to do with high demand from corporate renters and high efficiency (easy price negotiations, renewal, low maintenance) for the property managers.
That's a tough thing to ban. Instead of banning the Type 3 STRs, it would be better to "pair them up" with subsidized "affordable" apartments reserved for and rented to the sub-30% MFI residents who are so hard to house for all the opposite reasons that the STR's are so easy to lease out.
Whether the appropriate ratio should be 1/1 or some other number, I don't know.
BTW, the Public Notice is a real good column. Thanks for maintaining it.
Kirk Becker
