Dallas still hasn’t found a solution to short-term rentals | Opinion
Just before a recent briefing, Dallas City Manager T.C. Broadnax jokingly asked whether council members would prefer to adjourn rather than discuss short-term rentals. Like most jokes, it contained more than a grain of truth. As a city staffer later told the council, “we are still struggling to identify STRs and to confirm their existence in some cases.”
After four years of complaints and three task forces, the city still doesn’t have a viable approach to a mess that residents have told them repeatedly is intolerable. Council inaction is a disservice to the rental industry, property owners seeking to make an income, and to residents overrun by party houses in their otherwise quiet neighborhoods.
Short-term rental properties, which are listed on sites like Airbnb and VRBO, allow homeowners to open private homes to vacationers and other visitors for short stays as an alternative to a hotel room. It is inexcusable that the city hasn’t adopted formal regulations governing the location or operation of short-term rentals, which fall somewhere between the rules for hotels and single-family residences. Short-term rental properties are considered a hotel under city code and state tax law, and property owners are required to pay hotel occupancy taxes. But while city code prohibits hotels from single-family residential neighborhoods, short-term rentals fall into a regulatory gap.
Council member Omar Narvaez said some short-term rentals in his district illegally host large commercial events. And he said investors recently acquired and converted eight of 10 properties in a new townhome community in his district into STRs, creating “a hotel inside the middle of this residential neighborhood.” This sort of behavior removes housing units from the market, infuriates residents and compounds Dallas’ acute housing shortage.
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