California resident Christina Nigrelli is helping to spearhead a movement to combat unruly Airbnb rentals. Nigrelli, the co-founder of the Long Beach Safe Neighborhood Coalition, is one of many Long Beach citizens across multiple neighborhoods seeking to ban un-hosted short-term rental units (STRs) by petitioning the city council. She considered this move a last resort after enduring neighboring tenants doing …
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As Hawaiians struggle to find affordable housing after Lahaina wildfire, lawmakers reconsider vacation rentals
Amy Chadwick spent years scrimping and saving as a single mother of two to buy a house in the town of Lahaina on the Hawaiian island of Maui. But after a devastating fire leveled Lahaina in August and reduced Chadwick’s home to white dust, the cheapest rental she and her now-husband could find for their family and dogs cost $10,000 …
Read More »Gordon Ramsay’s pub taken over by brazen squatters who threaten legal action if evicted
“Get out!” A group of “professional squatters” have taken over a London pub owned by celebrity chef Gordan Ramsay and are brazenly threatening legal action against anyone who tries to kick them out, according to a report. At least six freeloaders broke into Ramsay’s York and Albanyhotel and gastropub, which is for sale for $16.1 million, boarded up the windows, …
Read More »US affordable housing shortage sparks resurgence of single-room ‘micro-apartments'
Every part of Barbara Peraza-Garcia and her family’s single-room apartment in Seattle has a double or even triple purpose. The 180-square-foot room is filled with an air mattress where she, her partner and their children, ages 2 and 4, sleep. It’s also where they play or watch TV. At mealtimes, it becomes their dining room. It’s a tight squeeze for …
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