![]() Concerns include property value, affordable housing, community demise, noise, privacy, traffic, and safety inspections. Since the coronavirus hit in the spring, previously packed town meetings about short-term rental laws have moved to Zoom, but the arguments pitting neighbors against homeowners against hotel operators against elected officials remain constant-and emotional. In attendance were New Paltz Mayor Tim Rogers, deputy mayor KT Tobin, and village trustees Alexandria Wojcik and Michele Zipp. That town is exploring a short-term rental law that favors community members looking to make extra income over absentee real estate investors, and makes a distinction between commercial and residential zones.Ī still from a New Paltz Village Board Meeting held via Zoom on Nov 18, 2020, during which short-term rental limits were discussed. “We are in a housing crisis even before the pandemic, and now it’s on steroids,” said KT Tobin, deputy mayor of New Paltz. What is known is that more towns–from New Paltz and Milton to Chatham and Hudson–are exploring short-term rental limitations intended to curb run-away real estate prices and ease affordable housing concerns. Now, two years and one pandemic-fueled influx of Hudson Valley homeowners looking to Airbnb their new investments later, the answer still remains largely unclear. In a stroke of foresight, real estate and design site Curbed NY asked in 2018: What will Airbnb regulation look like in the Hudson Valley? No one knew proposed laws were only just starting-from Beacon to Hudson to smaller Catskills towns. Homeowners in the mid-Hudson region’s seven counties earned more than $50 million in income from about 300,000 guests in 2018, according to Airbnb, and in August Airbnb reported that more guests stayed in Airbnbs in the Catskills and Hudson Valley than in New York City. ![]() Local short-term home rentals in the greater Hudson Valley are booming and have been for awhile, even pre-pandemic. "Watson House, 150 year old Modern." View full listing on Airbnb. This Airbnb listing is in the Catskills in West Shokan, Ulster County. ![]() Towns in Ulster County and throughout the Hudson Valley explore short-term rental limits, potentially affecting the Airbnb market. ![]()
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