As long as the rooms are safe and sanitary, let the market determine what works best.

Another pristine example of City officials playing favorite to a "growing economy" over equitable and accessible housing. Unlicensed and unregulated landlords can and will exploit their low income tenants' needs while cashing in minimum wage earned rent checks. Just wait until the landlord tenant civil disputes start pouring into the courts and Hales will be sitting on his hands with this muddled up unenforced policy hoping Multnomah County will clean up his mess.

Rising rents during an historic low in vacancy is the only real issue here. Airbnbs are not a CRIME TRAIN or anything else. However, people FROM HERE are having a much more difficult time living close-in, and that's a problem.

Then again, some homeowners are solving it by offering rooms on Airbnb. huh.

I complained to a property management agent back about ten years ago, that there were so many office vacancies, yet none of the small, one man offices were being listed. He relented to rent me the small, vacant office I wanted, but at the same price as a huge office, as he works on commission, and the land lord gives him no incentive to rent the small spaces.

Bank foreclosed houses are kept off the market, in order to keep demand in excess of supply, other wise, real estate ought to be selling at ten cents on the dollar by now. The Federal Reserve buys stock in unlimited quantity as bears sell. This has been going on since 1994, at least. Can the markets be manipulated indefinitely?

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I'm usually against Hales, but kudos to him for being the one to push the sharing economy. As for McCullough and his "good thing I know the mayor" shit; eat it you socialist bastard. we don't need someone regulating our ability to share with each other and take back the economy to the point where we might actually be able to pay rent and still have money left over for a fucking cheeseburger. Your'e just scared you can't be so wealthy without a thousand other people being poor.

I'm just curious what kind of kickbacks / reacharounds Hales is getting for all this. I mean seriously, a more thorough sucking of the corporate cock? I can't remember when.

Hales seems to be in awe of these "21st-century" concepts millenials are coming up with. "Sharing economy! Hackathons! Micro-apartments! No-parking apartments!"

Not all the ideas are bad, of course, but it's strange to see such a blanket acceptance of anything new-age, trendy, and/or somehow related to the tech-sector.

He referred to Portland's "possibly antiquated taxicab regulations" at a council meeting over the summer, so we'll likely see Uber moving in at some point. And, just like the AirBnB meeting, the councilors will all express their concern at the variety of problems with the proposal, then unanimously approve it.

City Officials and dedicated citizens spent thousands of hours over the last year developing a reasonable short-term rental policy and procedure that is now largely being ignored by airbnb and its Portland hosts. At public hearings in April and July airbnb hosts begged for and eventually received a reasonable licensing procedure. Now airbnb hosts just want to ignore it.

City Officials had no problem announcing the Tax Payment agreement with airbnb, but now won't tell us how much was paid in the third quarter of 2014. I think an interim public statement is appropriate as we consider expanding licensing to apartments and condos.

airbnb complains that the data New York's Attorney General used to declare over 70% of airbnb listings to be out of compliance is "out of date" and inaccurate". Yet airbnb refuses to release updated and "more accurate" information. Portland is supposed to be airbnb's first "shared city" partner, yet they won't take any action to meaningfully support compliance.

The City may say it "lacks resources" for enforcement, but then why not use some of the $1,000,000+ that airbnb should pay The City in Lodging Tax to cover that cost.

Also, San Francisco's new ordinances includes monetary charges for 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th violations ranging from $500 to $5,000 and eventually $10,000. Portland needs to put some teeth into its current rather vague enforcement policy.

Check out www.TheAirbnbAnalyst.com to see how cities around the world are working to regulate airbnb.

"We don't need someone regulating our ability to share with each other"- true, Portland Bound, but AirBnB is not "sharing" it is an uninsured, black market motel scheme with an army of lobbyists.

"and take back the economy to the point where we might actually be able to pay rent and still have money left over for a fucking cheeseburger."


AirBnB rentals are pushing rents up, and that's why losers like Portland bound don't have money to go on a date- they just fuck cheeseburgers. Well, Portland Bound- enjoy the secret sauce. Your AirBnB guests will surely enjoy sharing your couch. Meanwhile the natives are restless and we can and will sabotage AirBnB.

C'mon FrankieB, I know you like to lend your extensive knowledge of housing policy to these articles. It involves housing, after all, which you seem to think you know everything about. Calling Frank Biggs! We need your opinions here, or can you at least call somebody a "dumbass" or "little bitch"? You know, people are probably renting to Californians, or worse yet, post-op transsexuals! You're missing a real opportunity here, Frank!

whoa just saw this reverend bite me- thats stupid, your believing what a real estate investor wants you to believe. similar to opponents of 92 wanting you to believe it will actually raise grocery prices; in the short term yes it probably will. it's all about weather your a straight bitch or got the spine to push change and get past that initial hump- bitch.

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