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Letter to the editor: No sense in limiting our islands’ short-term rentals

Por: Portland Press Herald Opinion October 17, 2022

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I urge Portland residents to vote no on ballot Questions A and B. Restrictions to short-term rentals were proposed to create affordable housing, but restricting short-term rentals on Portland’s islands will not create affordable housing. Many island homes are seasonal; the cost of turning them into year-round housing is prohibitive. Middle-class homeowners like me rely on short-term summer rentals to sustain the cost of homeownership, because... + full article



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