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Juneau officials are concerned that Airbnb and Vrbo listings may be eating into the city's already very limited housing stock.

. “They’re snooping, crawling the web, looking at rentals, trying to see how often those rentals are rented, what the approximate rates are. There’s some work that most of those companies do on the backend to line up a rental listing with a parcel and potentially with an owner.” commissioned by the Southeast Conference, business leaders in the region identified a lack of affordable housing as the top barrier to economic growth. It directly contributes to labor shortages.

Assembly member Wade Bryson thinks the flurry of new short-term rental listings may be a temporary blip, caused by this weekend’s “I think waiting till after Ironman will give us a better understanding of what the community is really going to be like,” he said. “Do people like this? Is it going to be a true problem that just continues to grow? Or do people really be like, ‘Oh my God, that wasn’t as great as I thought.

 

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Ayyy, if you can afford 2-3000-6000 a month rentals. Who the heck is renting these places? Tell me your secret?!?

You don’t need $20,000 to know this is happening. It’s happening everywhere—taking rental housing off the market from those who need it.

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